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The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution ( Italian: Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione [il barˈbjɛːre di siˈviʎʎa osˈsiːa liˈnuːtile prekautˈtsjoːne]) is an opera buffa in two acts composed by Gioachino Rossini with an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais 's ...
- Italian
- Cesare Sterbini
- Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione
- 20 February 1816, Teatro Argentina, Rome
The Barber of Seville, comic opera in two acts by Italian composer Gioachino Rossini ( libretto in Italian by Cesare Sterbini) that was first performed under the title Almaviva o sia l’inutile precauzione ( Almaviva; or, The Useless Precaution) at the Teatro Argentina in Rome on February 20, 1816. With a plot based on Pierre-Augustin Caron de ...
Orchestra sinfonica di Milano e Coro (Orchestra and Chorus) Nicola Monti (Conte Almaviva) Victoria de los Ángeles (Rosina) Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (Basilio) Anna Maria Canali (Berta) Melchiorre Luise (Bartolo) Gino Bechi (Figaro) Erminio Benatti (Fiorello/Ambrogio/Un ufficiale) Publisher Info.
The Barber of Seville (in Italian Il barbiere di Siviglia) is an opera in four acts by Italian composer Gioachino Rossini. Despite a disastrous opening night – the music teacher tripped over and had a prolonged nosebleed and an unexpected cat wandered on stage – it has gone on to be ‘perhaps the greatest of all comic operas’.
An Opera by Gioachino Rossini. The Barber of Seville, or Il barbiere di Siviglia in Italian, is one of the more purely entertaining evenings to be had in an opera house. No dying; no historical indignities; no goddesses or gods deciding the fate of humanity. There isn’t even any (actual) disease or (genuine) heartbreak or (mean-spirited ...
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Mar 3, 2021 · In 1772 Pierre Beaumarchais wrote a comedy called Le Barbier de Séville ou la Précaution inutile (The Barber of Seville or The useless precaution). The play immediately, or almost immediately (Beaumarchais had to rewrite a few scenes…) became a huge success. So big, in fact, that he soon started writing a second play, followed by a third.
