https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/30/arts/music/san-francisco-opera-barber-seville.html Philip Skinner as the hapless Dr. Bartolo in Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville,” San Francisco Opera’s return to performance after 16 months.Credit...Kelsey McClellan for The New York Times Rossini at the Drive-In, as San Francisco Opera Returns Honks instead of applause: An open-air “Barber of Seville” brought the company back after 16 months. Philip Skinner as the hapless Dr. Bartolo in Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville,” San Francisco Opera’s return to performance after 16 months.Credit...Kelsey McClellan for The New York Times April 30, 2021 SAN FRANCISCO — It feels almost too good to be true after a pandemic closure of Wagnerian scale: an audience watching a cast of singers enter the War Memorial Opera House here to rehearse and perform Rossini’s classic comedy “The Barber of Seville.”