"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"
"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"
"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"
"""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,"
"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"
"Guillaume Tell (Grétry) Guillaume Tell (""William Tell"") is an opéra comique, described as a ""drame mise en musique"", in three acts by André Grétry, The French text was by Michel-Jean Sedaine based on a play of the same name by Antoine-Marin Lemierre. It was first performed by the Comédie-Italienne at the first Salle Favart in Paris on 9 April 1791 and was revived on 24 May 1828 at the Salle Feydeau in a version much revised by Henri Montan Berton with music borrowed from other works of Grétry, including ""Amphitryon"", ""Céphale et Procris"", ""Aucassin et Nicolette"", ""Callias"", and ""Élisca"", and"
"""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"
"(1914). Reginald Somerville Reginald Somerville (1867 – 8 July 1948) was an English composer and actor. He is known for writing many drawing-room ballads such as ""God Sends the Night"", ""Yestereve"", ""Zaida: A Song of the Desert"" and ""The Lark and the Nightingale"", as well as a handful of operas. Somerville received musical training under the Italian tenor and teacher Giulio Moretti. He co-wrote music with A. McLean and G. W. Byng for the musical farce, ""A White Silk Dress"", opening at London's Prince of Wales's Theatre on 3 October 1896. In collaboration with the librettist Guy Eden, he wrote"
"Reginald Somerville Reginald Somerville (1867 – 8 July 1948) was an English composer and actor. He is known for writing many drawing-room ballads such as ""God Sends the Night"", ""Yestereve"", ""Zaida: A Song of the Desert"" and ""The Lark and the Nightingale"", as well as a handful of operas. Somerville received musical training under the Italian tenor and teacher Giulio Moretti. He co-wrote music with A. McLean and G. W. Byng for the musical farce, ""A White Silk Dress"", opening at London's Prince of Wales's Theatre on 3 October 1896. In collaboration with the librettist Guy Eden, he wrote ""The"
"William Tell (play) William Tell () is a drama written by Friedrich Schiller in 1804. The story focuses on the legendary Swiss marksman William Tell as part of the greater Swiss struggle for independence from the Habsburg Empire in the early 14th century. Gioachino Rossini's four-act opera ""Guillaume Tell"" was written to a French adaptation of Schiller's play. The play was written by Friedrich Schiller between 1803 and 1804, and published that year in a first edition of 7000 copies. Since its publication, Schiller’s ""William Tell"" has been translated into many languages. Friedrich Schiller (who had never been to Switzerland,"
"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"
"recreating the previously unknown musical lives of famous figures from the past, discovering and recording their favourite songs – including songs they themselves had composed. He directed a critically acclaimed production of Rossini's ""The Barber of Seville"" at London's Royal Opera House in 2014. Thomas Guthrie (director) Thomas Guthrie is an English director, actor and baritone singer. Guthrie was born in England. He began singing as a boy under George Guest at St John's College, Cambridge. He then read Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge before winning a scholarship to study at the Royal Northern College of Music, where he won"
"as ""Le grand macabre"", Mozart's both ""Die Entführung aus dem Serail"" and ""Don Giovanni"" as well as Giuseppe Verdi's ""Don Giovanni"" and ""Rigoletto"". Besides those operas he is well known for production of Richard Wagner's ""The Flying Dutchman"" and Gioachino Rossini's ""The Barber of Seville"" as well as ""The Merry Widow"" operetta of Franz Lehar and Leoš Janáček's Káťa Kabanová, among other well respected works. In 1985 he conducted Richard Strauss's ""Ariadne auf Naxos"" which was performed in Spoleto and next year became a conductor of another Gioachino Rossini's work called ""La Cenerentola"" in Aspen. Later on, he became Simon"
"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,"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"the years 1830–1907. As ""Hofer, or the Tell of the Tyrol"", the opera was first performed at Drury Lane in London on 1 May 1830 (in English), with a production in Italian following in 1839 at Her Majesty's, and in French at Covent Garden in 1845. In New York, ""William Tell"" was first presented on 19 September 1831. It was revived at the Metropolitan Opera in 1923 with Ponselle and Martinelli, and there were revivals during the 1930s in Milan, Rome, Paris, Berlin and Florence. When the opera was performed at Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona) in 1893, an anarchist"
"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"
"Ottavio in ""Don Giovanni"" and Count Almaviva in ""The Barber of Seville"", Goffredo in ""Armida"", Rodrigo di Dhu in ""La donna del lago"", and Arnold Melchtal in ""Guillaume Tell"" with the company. In 2011, he made his role debut as Arnold in Rossini's opera ""William Tell"", with Antonio Pappano conducting the Orchestra and Chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, a role he has since repeated at the Royal Opera House, London, and other leading opera companies. Also in 2011 he appeared in the very demanding leading role of Raoul in Meyerbeer's grand opera ""Les Huguenots"" at La Monnaie,"
"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"""
"plays elsewhere). In the past, the main stage series has featured multiple productions of Schiller's early play, ""The Robbers"" (in addition to a production of Verdi's opera based on that play, ""I masnadieri)"", as well as ""Intrigue and Love"", and his later plays ""William Tell"" (1804) (the basis for Rossini's opera of the same name in 1829) and ""The Maid of Orleans"" (""Die Jungfrau von Orléans""), some of which became part of Tchaikovsky's opera. Mannheim was home to the so-called Mannheim School of 18th-century classical composers. It was reputed to have one of the best court orchestras in Europe and,"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"""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."
"Maria Ewing who sang in the 1970 ""The Barber of Seville"" production; Leona Mitchell, who sang Bess in the company's 1975 production of ""Porgy and Bess""; Kathleen Battle, whose 1975 performance as Rosina in ""The Barber of Seville"" marked her operatic debut; Catherine Malfitano, who created the role of Catherine Sloper in MOT's world premiere staging of ""Washington Square"" in 1976. Other notable artists include The Metropolitan Opera's Jerome Hines, a bass, who in 1974 sang the title role of ""Boris Godunov""; Nicole Cabell who sang Musetta in ""La bohème"" in 2005, a few months after winning the BBC Cardiff"
"acclaimed Jo Davies production of Gilbert & Sullivan's Ruddigore as well as Sasha Paradise Moscow. He has sung Marcello La bohème for Raymond Gubbay at the Royal Albert Hall and also Schaunard for Glyndebourne Touring Opera. He has sung the title role in The Barber of Seville, Marcello, Hector King Priam, Eduardo L'assedio di Calais, Paolo Simon Boccanegra and Emireno Ottone for English Touring Opera, as well as creating the role of Abraham in James MacMillan's ""Clemency"" directed by Katie Mitchell for ROH2 and revived for Scottish Opera at the 2012 Edinburgh Festival. In 2017 he sang the role of"
"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"
"Luigi Alva Luis Ernesto Alva y Talledo, better known as Luigi Alva (born 10 April 1927) is a Peruvian operatic tenor. A Mozart and Rossini specialist, Alva achieved fame with roles such as Don Ottavio (in ""Don Giovanni""), Count Almaviva (in ""The Barber of Seville"") and Fenton (in Verdi's ""Falstaff""). He retired from the stage in 1989. Alva was born in Paita, Peru, and served for a while in the Peruvian Navy before concentrating on a singing career. He studied at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in Lima under Rosa Mercedes Ayarza de Morales and made his operatic debut in"
"the writings of Hucbald and wishing to recreate the old manner of storytelling and drama, pioneered the use of a single melodic line to tell the story, accompanied by simple chords from a harpsichord or lute. In the baroque era, recitatives were commonly rehearsed on their own by the stage director, the singers frequently supplying their own favourite baggage arias which might be by a different composer (some of Mozart's so-called concert arias fall into this category). This division of labour persisted in some of Rossini's works; the ""secco"" recitatives for ""The Barber of Seville"" and ""La Cenerentola"" were composed"
"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 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"