Raucous Rossini Il Signor Bruschino

Raucous Rossini are an acclaimed young opera company who provide an opportunity for emerging singers and musicians to engage in Italian opera. Based in Glasgow, and largely consisting of musicians trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, this is Raucous Rossini's third opera tour.

This July Raucous Rossini, with their 27 musicians, are touring the one act comedy opera, Il Signor Bruschino. Alongside this, the orchestra of Raucous Rossini will be presenting a concert series featuring the Mozart Clarinet Concerto played by Scottish virtuoso clarinetist Ross Montgomery. With 16 performances over the course of July, Raucous Rossini are touring around Scotland, England and Italy. Raucous Rossini exists to help take opera to a wide variety of venues and audiences, and children of all ages are more than welcome to the performances. More information can be found at www.raucousrossini.com. The opera tour is entirely funded by private donations and concert receipts, your support is much appreciated.

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Sofia and Florville are in love, but her guardian, Gaudenzio, opposes the match. Florville's father and Gaudenzio are old enemies. Florville's father dies, removing one barrier, but Gaudenzio has already agreed to wed Sofia to the son of his old friend, Signor Bruschino. Sofia has never met her fiancée, as they were betrothed by correspondence. On his way to meet Sofia, young Bruschino stops at a tavern, runs up an impressive bill and is detained when he is unable to pay. Seizing the opportunity, Florville pretends to be Bruschino junior so that he can marry Sofia. Complications arise when Bruschino senior arrives at Gaudenzio's house. Fortunately, however, he is eventually forced to accept Florville as his own son. In a playful trio, Florville (as Bruschino junior) begs his "father" for forgiveness, while Gaudenzio upbraids old Bruschino for his lack of fatherly sympathy.