"Daniel Belcher Daniel Belcher is an American operatic baritone who has sung at many of the world's leading opera houses. He notably portrayed the role of John Brooke in the world premiere of Mark Adamo's ""Little Women"" and played the role of Andy Warhol in the premiere of Michael Daugherty's ""Jackie O"", both with the Houston Grand Opera (HGO). He is particularly admired for his portrayal of Rossini heroes with Dandini in ""La Cenerentola"" and Figaro in ""The Barber of Seville"" being two of his signature roles. Belcher grew up in St. Joseph, Missouri and attended William Jewell College, where"
"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"
"had a real story that people liked; it had dramatic variety; and, musically, it had strong melodies and even strong supporting orchestral parts, including a strong ""stand-alone"" overture (i.e., you could even enjoy the overture as an independent orchestral piece). Verdi was also enthusiastic because the music was by a southern Italian and the text by a northerner, which appealed to Verdi's pan-Italian vision. The genre was developed further in the 19th century by Gioachino Rossini in his masterpieces such as ""The Barber of Seville"" (1816) and ""La Cenerentola"" (1817). French composers eagerly seized upon the Italian model and made"
"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"""
"so successful that the fame of Paisiello's opera was transferred to Rossini's, to which the title ""The Barber of Seville"" passed as an inalienable heritage. Later in 1822, a 30-year-old Rossini succeeded in meeting Ludwig van Beethoven, who was then aged 51, deaf, cantankerous and in failing health. Communicating in writing, Beethoven noted: ""Ah, Rossini. So you're the composer of ""The Barber of Seville"". I congratulate you. It will be played as long as Italian opera exists. Never try to write anything else but opera buffa; any other style would do violence to your nature."" Between 1815 and 1823 Rossini"
"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"
"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"
"Music. Francisco Asenjo Barbieri Francisco Asenjo Barbieri (3 August 1823 – 19 February 1894) was a well-known composer of the popular Spanish opera form, ""zarzuela."" His works include: ""El barberillo de Lavapiés"", ""Jugar con fuego"", ""Pan y toros"", ""Don Quijote"", ""Los diamantes de la corona"", and ""El Diablo en el poder"". He was born and died in Madrid, appropriately, since the themes are characters of his operas are often distinctly Spanish and Madrilenian. Among the characters featured by Barbieri are bullfighters, ""manolos"" and ""manolas"", and even (in ""Pan y toros"") the famous Spanish painter, Francisco Goya. The character of much"
"""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,"
"Francisco Asenjo Barbieri Francisco Asenjo Barbieri (3 August 1823 – 19 February 1894) was a well-known composer of the popular Spanish opera form, ""zarzuela."" His works include: ""El barberillo de Lavapiés"", ""Jugar con fuego"", ""Pan y toros"", ""Don Quijote"", ""Los diamantes de la corona"", and ""El Diablo en el poder"". He was born and died in Madrid, appropriately, since the themes are characters of his operas are often distinctly Spanish and Madrilenian. Among the characters featured by Barbieri are bullfighters, ""manolos"" and ""manolas"", and even (in ""Pan y toros"") the famous Spanish painter, Francisco Goya. The character of much of"
"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"
"La Cenicienta La Cenicienta (""Cinderella"") is an opera in three acts composed by Chilean artist Jorge Peña Hen (1928–1973), to a libretto by the Chilean author, Oscar Jara Azocar (1910–1988). This opera is one of the few operas in the world composed with the aim to be sung, acted and played exclusively by children. It was written in 1966 and played by Jorge Peña Hen's first Symphonic Orchestra of Children at the Theater of the Girls Public School in La Serena, a city in the northern region of Coquimbo. In 1967, a production of ""La Cenicienta"" went on a tour"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"in 1946, and reserved a major portion of his time to opera, conducting at the opera houses of Rome, Turin, Florence, Milan, etc. He quickly began appearing outside Italy, notably in Athens, Berlin, Oslo and Paris. The year 1961 saw his debuts in England, at the Glyndebourne Festival in ""L'elisir d'amore"", and in the United States, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in ""La Forza del Destino"", later conducting ""The Barber of Seville"", ""La Cenerentola"", ""La favorite"" and ""La bohème"". In 1964, he made his debut at the Royal Opera House in London at the request of Maria Callas, conducting"
"Teatro Municipal Coliseo Podestá The Teatro Municipal Coliseo Podestá is located on the streets 46 and 47, avenue 10 (#733), City of La Plata, capital of the Buenos Aires Province, en Argentina. Teatro Italian horseshoe by Uruguayan Carlos Zehndorf was originally called Teatro Politeama Olimpo opened on 19 November 1886 with the opera of Gioachino Rossini, The Barber of Seville by tenor Roberto Stagno and Gemma Bellincioni. The following year was bought by Juan José Podestá, who makes it into the headquarters of his representations rioplatense pioneer theater company. Here, operas premiered before of Buenos Aires and acted important figures"
"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."
"Aria Tesolin Aria Tesolin (born August 20, 1993 in Mississauga, Ontario) is a Canadian mezzo-soprano, pop classical, classical crossover and contemporary pop singer, songwriter and poet known for her operatic vocals and genre defying original style of classically infused pop music. As a child singer, Tesolin began singing opera arias in concert with Canada's 3 Tenors at the age of eight, singing the ""Habanera"" from Bizet's opera ""Carmen"", the brindisi ""Libiamo ne' lieti calici"" from Verdis's opera ""La traviata"", ""Belle nuit"" from Offenbach's ""The Tales of Hoffmann"", ""Largo al factotum"", the famous baritone aria from Rossini's ""The Barber of Seville"""
"Carignano in Turin. He died in Genoa. Serafino Amedeo De Ferrari Serafino Amedeo De Ferrari (6 May 1824 – 27 March 1885) was an Italian composer, conductor, organist, and pianist. He is best known for his operas, of which his most popular were ""Pipelè"" (1855) and ""Il Menestrello"" (1859). Born in Genoa, Ferrari studied in his native city and in Milan. He performed widely as a concert organist and pianist. In 1852 he was highly active as a conductor in Amsterdam, after which he worked as the director of singing at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa. He then worked"
"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"
"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"
"Senesino Senesino (; ; born Francesco Bernardi on 31 October 1686 – 27 November 1758) was a celebrated Italian contralto castrato, particularly remembered today for his long collaboration with the composer George Frideric Handel. Senesino was the son of a barber from Siena (hence his stage-name). He joined the cathedral choir there in 1695 and was castrated at the comparatively late age of thirteen. His debut was at Venice in 1707, and during the next decade he acquired a European reputation and, by the time he sang in Lotti's ""Giove in Argo"" in 1717 at Dresden, a commensurately enormous salary."
"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"
"musical family in New York City, he studied with Pizzetti, Giannini and Polacco. He made his debut in 1943, conducting ""La traviata"", at the Brooklyn Academy of Music for Alfredo Salmaggi's opera company. He then toured the United States with the San Carlo Opera Company, serving as the company's music director from 1944-1947. He then took music director posts with the Connecticut Opera and Havana Opera. He made his conducting debut with the San Francisco Opera in 1950 conducting Lily Pons in ""The Barber of Seville"" and Dorothy Kirsten in ""Madama Butterfly"". In 1953, Rescigno co-founded the Lyric Opera of"
"Algeri"", ""Il barbiere di Siviglia"" and ""La Cenerentola"" as one of the operas written in the shortest amount of time that is still frequently performed today. It is not known what Leopold thought of the opera written in his honor. Reports that his wife Maria Luisa of Spain dismissed it as """" (literally in Italian ""German swinishness,"" but most idiomatically translated ""A German mess"") do not pre-date 1871, in a collection of literary vignettes by Alfred Meissner about the history of Prague purportedly based on recollections of the author's grandfather, who was present for the coronation ceremonies. The premiere took"
"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"","
"the Argentina Theatre from 1807 to 1815, was a ""theatre fanatic"" who continued until his death to run up debts. Rossini's ""The Barber of Seville"" was given its premiere on 20 February 1816, just after Duke Francesco's death and, in the 19th century, the premieres of many notable operas took place in the theatre, including Verdi's ""I due Foscari"" on 3 November 1844 and ""La battaglia di Legnano"" on 27 January 1849. From 1919 to 1944, more musical offerings than dramatic ones were presented, although the theatre premiered works by Luigi Pirandello, Henrik Ibsen and Maxim Gorky during this time."
"previously conducted Szymanowski's ""Kròl Roger"" (directed by Kasper Holten, Green Room Award 2018), Bizet's ""Carmen"", Puccini's ""Tosca"" and ""La Bohème"" (the latter was also the 2015 NYE Gala at the ""Sydney Opera House""), Verdi's ""A Masked Ball"" (directed by Alex Ollé - ""La Fura dels Baus"") and ""Macbeth"" and Rossini's ""The Barber of Seville"" among others. He opened the 2010 concert season of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice with the world premiere of Bruno Maderna’s ""Requiem"". At the Teatro La Fenice he had opened the 2005 edition of the Venice Music Biennale with Heiner Goebbels’ ""Surrogate Cities"" and he"
"Boston Lyric Opera Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) is an American opera company based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1976. In the 2018-2019 season, Boston Lyric Opera will produce ""The Barber of Seville"", ""Schoenberg in Hollywood""; ""The Rape of Lucretia""; and the east coast premiere of Poul Ruder's ""The Handmaid's Tale"". ""The Barber of Seville"", Gioachino Rossini's celebrated classic, will be performed from October 12th-21st at the Cutler Majestic Theatre and directed by Rosetta Cucchi, with Argentine mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack as the feisty Rosina. As a part of BLO's new work commissioning program, the world-premiere of Tod Machover and Simon Robson's"
"to some sources, he was mainly a violinist—he was certainly a violinist in the monastery of the Carmine in Naples—whereas other sources believe he was primarily a flautist. Cecere set to music at least two librettos by Pietro Trinchera, including ""La tavernola abentorosa."" Trinchera, not Cecere, was punished because ""La tavernola abentorosa""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s satirical portrayal of monastic life was considered a buffoonish mockery. It was the first comic opera written specifically for a monastic audience. Carlo Cecere Carlo Cecere (7 November 170615 February 1761) was an Italian composer of operas, concertos and instrumental duets including, for example, some mandolin duets and"
"""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."