Il barbiere di Siviglia Sinfonia (The Barber of Seville Overture)
The opera buffa of all “oper buffes,” Rossini’s Barber of Seville has established itself as one of the greatest works of comedy in music. Even after two centuries, it is still a well-liked work.
The Barber of Seville, a French farce by Pierre Beaumarchais, served as inspiration for the text (1775). The first of three pieces by French playwright Pierre Beaumarchais that center on the witty and entrepreneurial Figaro, the barber of the title, are recounted in Rossini’s opera. The second installment of the Beaumarchais trilogy serves as the inspiration for Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro, which was written in 1786, 30 years earlier. The Comédie-Italienne rejected the first Beaumarchais play as an opéra comique, despite its original conception as such. The Comédie-Française performed the play’s first performance, as it is currently known, at the Théâtre des Tuileries in Paris in 1775. Rossini’s opera received its world premiere on February 20, 1816, at the Teatro Argentina in Rome, under the direction of Angelo Toselli.
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