"sembiante"" for Almaviva, and a finale for act one. In 1788 the opera was given in Berlin, followed by London and Paris (1789); Lisbon (1791); Brussels (1793); Stockholm (1797); and New Orleans (1801) In 1789 Mozart dedicated the aria "" ""Schon lacht der holde Frühling"""" (K. 580) to his sister-in-law Josepha Hofer as a substitute for Rosina's original act 3 aria (""Già riede primavera""). Although it is missing only the closing ritornello, the incomplete orchestration suggests it was never used. The opera proved to be Paisiello's biggest success. Even after the 1816 premiere of Gioachino Rossini's own version of ""The"
"""The Barber of Seville"", by Gioachino Rossini, at the Théâtre-Italien in 1818, two years after its premiere in Rome. Rossini made modifications for the French audience, changing it from two to four acts and changing Rosina's part from a contralto to a soprano. This new version premiered at the Odeon Theater on 6 May 1824, with Rossini present, and remains today the version most used in opera houses around the world. At the beginning of the Restoration, the Paris Opera was located in the Salle Montansier on rue Richelieu, where the square Louvois is today. On 13 February 1820, the"
"""The Guilty Mother"", the children of the Count and Countess are named, but no offspring from Figaro or Suzanne are referenced which suggests they remain childless. The Barber of Seville (play) The Barber of Seville or the Useless Precaution () is a French play by Pierre Beaumarchais, with original music by Antoine-Laurent Baudron. It was initially conceived as an opéra comique, and was rejected as such in 1772 by the Comédie-Italienne. The play as it is now known was written in 1773, but, due to legal and political problems of the author, it was not performed until February 23, 1775,"
"The Barber of Seville (play) The Barber of Seville or the Useless Precaution () is a French play by Pierre Beaumarchais, with original music by Antoine-Laurent Baudron. It was initially conceived as an opéra comique, and was rejected as such in 1772 by the Comédie-Italienne. The play as it is now known was written in 1773, but, due to legal and political problems of the author, it was not performed until February 23, 1775, at the Comédie-Française in the Tuileries. It is the first play in a trilogy of which the other constituents are ""The Marriage of Figaro"" and ""The"
"Gioachino Rossini Gioachino Antonio Rossini (; 29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as some sacred music, songs, chamber music, and piano pieces. He was a precocious composer of operas, and he made his debut at age 18 with ""La cambiale di matrimonio"". His best-known operas include the Italian comedies ""The Barber of Seville"" (""Il barbiere di Siviglia""), ""The Italian Girl in Algiers"" (""L'italiana in Algeri""), and ""Cinderella"" (""La Cenerentola""). He also wrote a string of serious operas in Italian, including works such as ""Tancredi"", ""Otello"", and ""Semiramide"". ""The Thieving"
"of ""Guglielmo Tell"", the third act of ""Otello"", and all of ""il Barbiere di Siviglia"" will certainly endure."" Texts, books Sheet music Performances Gioachino Rossini Gioachino Antonio Rossini (; 29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as some sacred music, songs, chamber music, and piano pieces. He was a precocious composer of operas, and he made his debut at age 18 with ""La cambiale di matrimonio"". His best-known operas include the Italian comedies ""The Barber of Seville"" (""Il barbiere di Siviglia""), ""The Italian Girl in Algiers"" (""L'italiana in Algeri""), and"
"The Barber of Seville (Paisiello) Il barbiere di Siviglia, ovvero La precauzione inutile (""The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution"") is a comic opera by Giovanni Paisiello from a libretto by Giuseppe Petrosellini, even though his name is not identified on the score's title page. The opera was first performed on 26 September 1782 (old Russian calendar, 15 September) at the Imperial Court, Saint Petersburg. It was adapted from the play ""Le Barbier de Séville"" of Pierre Beaumarchais. The full title for the opera reads: """"Il barbiere di Siviglia, ovvero La Precauzione inutile, dramma giocoso per musica tradotto liberamente"
"to the music of Francesco Basili in 1820. He died in Rome on 19 January 1831. Cesare Sterbini Cesare Sterbini (born 1784 in Rome – January 19, 1831) was an Italian writer and librettist. Possessing a deep knowledge of classical and contemporary culture, philosophy, linguistics, he was fluent in Greek, Latin, Italian, French and German. He is best known as the librettist for two operas by Gioachino Rossini: ""Torvaldo e Dorliska"" (1815) and ""The Barber of Seville"" (1816). An official in the Pontifical Administration, he also set poetry to music as an amateur. He wrote the libretto to the opera"
"article by Stendhal, she wrote her famous memoir entitled ""Cenni di una donna già cantante sopra il Maestro Rossini..."", which includes an account of the première of ""The Barber of Seville"". Geltrude Righetti Geltrude Righetti (1793–1862) was an Italian contralto closely associated with the operas of Gioachino Rossini. (Her name is also sometimes given as Giorgi-Righetti or Righetti-Giorgi, Giorgi being the name of her husband.) Born in Bologna, she also studied and made her debut there in 1814. The following year she created the important role of Rosina in ""The Barber of Seville"" and in 1817 she was the first"
"Cesare Sterbini Cesare Sterbini (born 1784 in Rome – January 19, 1831) was an Italian writer and librettist. Possessing a deep knowledge of classical and contemporary culture, philosophy, linguistics, he was fluent in Greek, Latin, Italian, French and German. He is best known as the librettist for two operas by Gioachino Rossini: ""Torvaldo e Dorliska"" (1815) and ""The Barber of Seville"" (1816). An official in the Pontifical Administration, he also set poetry to music as an amateur. He wrote the libretto to the opera ""Il Contraccambio"" to the music of Giacomo Cordella in 1819, and the opera ""Isaura and Ricciardo"""
"""The Barber of Seville"" in 1819. Rossini moved to Paris in 1824, and was named Director of Music and Staging at the Théâtre-Italien. Only Italian works were presented, always in Italian. Rossini became the most prominent figure of the Paris musical world, writing the music for the coronation of Charles X in 1824. In 1820 a Bonapartist assassinated the Duke du Berry at the Paris opera house on rue de Richelieu. King Louis XVIII ordered the immediate closing, and then the demolition, of the Opera House. The Opera moved to the Salle Le Peletier, where it remained for fifty years."
"Lyric Opera of Chicago, Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, La Fenice, Teatro alla Scala Milano, Wiener Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper and has taken part in the Bayreuth Festival. Eric Halfvarson Eric Halfvarson (born December 1, 1951 in Aurora, Illinois) is an American operatic basso. He made his professional debut in 1973 with the Lake George Opera (now the Opera Saratoga) as Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville. Since then he has specialized in the repertoire for the basso profundo, singing such roles as the Grand Inquisitor in Don Carlos, Sarastro in The Magic Flute, Baron Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier and, in"
"Luigi Zamboni Luigi Zamboni (1767 – 28 February 1837) was an Italian operatic buffo bass-baritone. He was born in Bologna, where he began his singing career in 1791 in a production of Cimarosa's ""Il fanatico burlato"". Engagements followed in Naples, Parma, Venice and Rome, where he sang in operas by Valentino Fioravanti, Paisiello and others. He retired from the stage in 1825. He died in Florence. The part of Figaro in ""The Barber of Seville"" was written for Zamboni by Gioachino Rossini, who was also a family friend. Zamboni created the role in Rome on 20 February 1816. In 1829"
"and went with her to Le Havre. After his stay in Rome in 1833 he made his debut as a composer with the world premiere of the Opéra bouffe ""Cosimo ou le peintre badigeonneur"" 1835 at the Opéra-Comique, where several more of his operas were performed until 1839. In 1838 he was engaged as a conductor at the Théâtre Français in New Orleans, where he introduced himself with a performance of ""The Barber of Seville"". In addition to works by contemporary Italian and French composers such as Gaetano Donizetti and Daniel-François-Esprit Auber, he performed several operas of his own. 1841"
"The Barber of Seville (1904 film) The Barber of Seville (), also released as The Barber of Sevilla, or the Useless Precaution, was a 1904 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès, based on the play of the same name by Pierre Beaumarchais. It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 606–625 in its catalogues, where it was advertised as a ""comédie burlesque en 7 actes, d'après Beaumarchais"". Like several other of Méliès's longer films, two versions were released simultaneously: a complete 22-minute print and an abridged print. As with his 1904 film ""Faust and Marguerite"", Méliès"
"Zamboni managed an Italian opera company in St Petersburg for two seasons, performing Rossini and other works. Luigi Zamboni Luigi Zamboni (1767 – 28 February 1837) was an Italian operatic buffo bass-baritone. He was born in Bologna, where he began his singing career in 1791 in a production of Cimarosa's ""Il fanatico burlato"". Engagements followed in Naples, Parma, Venice and Rome, where he sang in operas by Valentino Fioravanti, Paisiello and others. He retired from the stage in 1825. He died in Florence. The part of Figaro in ""The Barber of Seville"" was written for Zamboni by Gioachino Rossini, who"
"Nicola Vaccai Nicola Vaccai (15 March 1790 – 5 or 6 August 1848) was an Italian composer, particularly of operas, and a singing teacher. Born at Tolentino, he grew up in Pesaro, and studied music there until his parents sent him to Rome to study law. Having no intention of becoming a lawyer, he took voice lessons and eventually studied counterpoint with Giuseppe Jannaconi, an important Roman composer. When Vaccai turned twenty one, he went to Naples and became a disciple of Paisiello, whose ""Barber of Seville"" was considered a comic masterpiece until Rossini's ""Barber"" swept it from the stage"
"being ""The Barber of Seville"" in 1849. However, the Finnish Opera company soon plunged into a financial crisis and folded in 1879. During its six years of operation, Bergbom’s opera company had given 450 performances of a total of 26 operas, and the company had managed to demonstrate that opera can be sung in Finnish too. After the disbandment of the Finnish Opera, the opera audiences of Helsinki had to confine themselves to performances of visiting opera companies and occasional opera productions at the Finnish National Theatre. The reincarnation of the Finnish opera institution took place about 30 years later."
"his marriage or receiving two bullets in the head (an easy choice, Basilio says). He and Figaro witness the signatures to a marriage contract between the Count and Rosina. Bartolo barges in, accompanied by the Officer and the men of the watch, but too late; the marriage is already complete. The befuddled Bartolo (who was the one who had removed the ladder) is pacified by being allowed to retain Rosina's dowry. The opera concludes with an anthem to love (""Amor e fede eterna, si vegga in noi regnar!""). Notes Sources The Barber of Seville The Barber of Seville, or The"
"Salvatore Baccaloni Salvatore Baccaloni (14 April 190031 December 1969) was an Italian operatic bass, buffo artist, and actor. Baccaloni was born in Rome. After attending the Sistine Chapel choir school from age seven, he studied voice with the celebrated baritone Giuseppe Kaschmann (Josip Kašman, 1847–1925) and cast aside his initial ambitions to become an architect. He made his professional debut as Bartolo in ""The Barber of Seville"", at Rome's Teatro Adriano, in 1922. He sang for the first time at La Scala, Milan, in 1926, in Ildebrando Pizzetti's ""Debora e Jaele"". Initially, he performed the standard bass parts there, such"
"the opera ""The Barber of Seville"". The opera was first given in the UK on 30 April 1818 at the King's Theatre in London. Notable performances include Palermo (1970), Arles (1975), Teatro Regio di Torino , the Teatro San Carlo, Naples (1991), in New York (1998, given by Opera Northwest), at the Teatro Margarita Xirgu, Buenos Aires (2004), and at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro (2004). ""Throne Room of Whitehall Palace"", The Earl of Leicester is celebrating his victory over the Scots. The Duke of Norfolk, who is also present, scowls with jealousy. The Queen enters: (Aria: ""Quant'è grato all'alma"
"Opera among others. Natale de Carolis Natale de Carolis (born 25 July 1957 in Anagni) is an Italian operatic baritone who has had an active career in major opera houses internationally since the early 1980s. He is particularly associated with the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Gioachino Rossini. Born in Anagni, Carolis studied singing with Renato Guelfi and Maria Vittoria. After winning the Toti dal Monte Singing Competition in Treviso, he made his professional opera debut in 1983 as Don Basilio in Rossini's ""The Barber of Seville"" at the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in Spoleto for the Festival dei Due"
"for seven seasons. He later left for Latin America, where he sang in Mexico City, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Santiago and Rosario. He returned to La Scala in 1939 for the world premiere of ""La dama boba"" of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari. In 1947 at the Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi he was the protagonist in ""Manon"" with a very young Renata Scotto. His most popular roles were Count Almaviva in ""The Barber of Seville"" and Des Grieux in ""Manon"". In the forties, at the height of his vocal powers, he recorded two complete works: "" The Barber of Seville "" and ""Rigoletto"","
"They include orchestral pieces such as ""The Barber of Seville Goes to the Devil"" and the Second Symphony; concertante works for bassoon, clarinet, flute, horn, piano, oboe, trombone and trumpet; and chamber works for many different combinations of instruments. Gordon Jacob Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob CBE (5 July 18958 June 1984) was an English composer and teacher. He was a professor at the Royal College of Music in London from 1924 until his retirement in 1966, and published four books and many articles about music. As a composer he was prolific: the list of his works totals more than 700,"
"Vivica Genaux Vivica Genaux (; born July 10, 1969) is an American coloratura mezzo-soprano. She was born in Fairbanks, Alaska. She has sung in major operas such as ""The Barber of Seville"" at the Metropolitan Opera, ""L'italiana in Algeri"" at Opéra National de Paris, and ""La Cenerentola"" with Dallas Opera and the Bayerische Staatsoper. Vivica Genaux was born on July 10, 1969 in Fairbanks. Her father was a biochemistry professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and her Mexican-born mother was a language teacher. She began her vocal studies as a young girl with late American dramatic soprano Dorothy Dow."
"the third movement of Beethoven's 5th Symphony has an opening theme that is very similar to the one in Mozart's 40th Symphony. Beethoven wrote cadenzas (WoO 58) to the first and third movements of Mozart's Piano Concerto in D minor. Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) was an Italian composer known for his numerous operas including ""The Barber of Seville"" and ""William Tell"". When Rossini visited Vienna, he made several attempts to meet Beethoven, who was then 51 and in failing health. Finally, Rossini was able to arrange a meeting with Beethoven through the help of Giuseppe Carpani, an Italian poet living in"
"Domenico Trimarchi Domenico Trimarchi is an Italian bass-baritone opera singer. He was born in Naples (21 December 1938), where he studied singing at the Conservatory. In 1970 he made his debut at La Fenice, Venice as Belcore in ""L'elisir d'amore"". He made his British debut at the Edinburgh Festival in 1972 and first appeared at Covent Garden in 1975 playing Bartolo in ""The Barber of Seville"". In ""The Times"" William Mann praised him as ""ripe, rubber-faced and a virtuoso patter singer."" Trimarchi reprised the role there between 1978 and 1987. He has appeared at all the major opera-houses of the"
"Nolan Van Way Nolan Van Way (born January 31, 1931) is an American operatic baritone and tenor whose stage career, in opera and Broadway musicals, spanned half a century. He sang in many languages including French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. After retiring from the stage, Van Way became a vocal coach. While attending Indiana University, Van Way studied opera, theater, and television production. Having trained under bass-baritone Carl Van Buskerk, Nolan Van Way started his career as a baritone. He performed the role of Figaro in the Indiana University production of the opera ""The Barber of Seville"". Van Way"
"Seville"" by Rossini in 1816 (itself preceded by other versions, including a 1782 setting by Giovanni Paisiello). Pountney, who in his capacity as Chief Executive and Artistic Director of the Welsh National Opera commissioned the composition, was inspired in his libretto by two different theatrical follow-ups to these two plays, Beaumarchais's own ""La Mère coupable (The Guilty Mother)"", and Ödön von Horváth's 1936 play, ""Figaro läßt sich scheiden (Figaro Gets a Divorce)."" Both of these plays have previous operatic settings, the former by Darius Milhaud (1966), Inger Wikström (""Den brottsliga modern"", 2006), and Thierry Pécou (2010), the latter by Giselher"
"Anna de Belocca Anna de Belocca (née de Bellokh) (4 January 1854 – unknown ), was a Russian-born operatic contralto. She was born in St.Petersburg, where her father was an Imperial Russian Councilor of State. After studying in St. Petersburg with Henriette Nissen-Saloman and in Paris with Nicolas Lablache and Maurice Strakosch, she made her stage debut in Paris at the Théâtre Italien as Rosina ""The Barber of Seville"". She also appeared there in the title role of ""La Cenerentola"" and as Arsace in ""Semiramide"". She appeared in various cities in Europe, including London, where she made her debut with"
"complete opera recordings, including ""Così fan tutte"", ""Lucia di Lammermoor"", opposite Lily Pons, ""Faust"", Ford in ""Falstaff"" under Toscanini, and ""Cavalleria rusticana"". He can also be heard on several live broadcasts from the Met, as well as some of the sets issued by the Metropolitan Opera Record Club. Frank Guarrera is honored with a mural painted by Peter Pagast at Broad and Tasker Streets in Philadelphia. The mural, painted in 2003, features Guarrera in several of his famous opera roles, including ""The Barber of Seville"" and Escamillo, the bullfighter, in ""Carmen"". Frank Guarrera Frank Guarrera (December 3, 1923 – November"
"Luis Mariano Mariano Eusebio González y García (13 August 1914 – 14 July 1970), also known as Luis Mariano, was a popular tenor of Spanish origin who achieved celebrity in 1946 with « La belle de Cadix » (« The Beautiful Lady of Cadix ») an operetta by Francis Lopez. He appeared in the 1954 film ""Adventures of the Barber of Seville"" and ""Le Chanteur de Mexico"" (1957) and became popular in France as well as his native Spain. Luis Mariano was born in Irun, Spain on 13 August 1914, the son of a garagiste and taxi-driver and showed interest"
"Oliver Njego Oliver Njego (Serbian Cyrillic: Оливер Њего, ) is a Serbian operatic baritone, who also crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most respected and most famous Serbian opera singers. He graduated in 1990, at the Faculty of Music Art in Belgrade in the class of Professor Radmila Bakočević. In 1991 becomes the member of National Theatre in Belgrade opera department, where he performed in Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville, Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, and many other famous operas. He has won three major awards at the competition Belgrade Spring, and won many prizes in various"