Mill City Summer Opera dramas for the summer arts audience in the Twin Cities every year since, with productions of Gioacchino Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" in 2013; Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca" in 2014; Gaetano Donizetti's "La fille du régiment" in 2015; Stephen Sondheim's "" in 2016; and Ástor Piazzolla's "María de Buenos Aires" in 2017. In addition, the organization has offered alternative educational and contemporary programming, including opera scenes featuring emerging artists in the opera field and fusion programming. Mill City Summer Opera Mill City Summer Opera is a non-profit performing arts organization that produces live opera in Minneapolis. It produces one opera per
The Marriage of Figaro employer Count Almaviva to seduce Susanna and teaching him a lesson in fidelity. The opera is a cornerstone of the repertoire and appears consistently among the top ten in the Operabase list of most frequently performed operas. Beaumarchais's earlier play "The Barber of Seville" had already made a successful transition to opera in a version by Paisiello. Beaumarchais's "Mariage de Figaro" was at first banned in Vienna; Emperor Joseph II stated that "since the piece contains much that is objectionable, I therefore expect that the Censor shall either reject it altogether, or at any rate have such alterations made in