The Barber of Seville, or The Futile Precaution (Italian: Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione [il barˈbjɛːre di siˈviʎʎa osˈsiːa l iˈnuːtile prekautˈtsjoːne] eel bar-BYAIR-ay dee-see-VEEL-lyah) is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's French comedy Le Barbier de Séville (1775). The première of Rossini's opera (under the title Almaviva, o sia L'inutile precauzione) took place on 20 February 1816 at the Teatro Argentina, Rome.
| Original Name | Il barbiere di Siviglia |
| Librettist | Cesare Sterbini (Based on Pierre Beaumarchais's French comedy "Le Barbier de Séville") |
| Date of composition | 1816 |
| Premiered | 1816, February 20th in Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome, Italy |
| First published | 1821 |
| Type | Opera Buffa |
| Approx. duration | 150 minutes |
| Spoken language | Italian |
| Instruments |
Voice (Tenor)
- Il Conte d'Almaviva, innamorato della giovane Rosina (Count Almaviva)
Voice (Bass) - Don Bartolo, dottore in medicina, tutore di Rosina e suo pretendente (Bartolo, doctor of medicine, Rosina's guardian) Voice (Contralto) - Rosina (rich pupil in Bartolo's house) Voice (Baritone) - Figaro, barbiere tuttofare (Figaro, barber) Voice (Bass) - Don Basilio, maestro di musica di Rosina, ipocrita (Basilio, Rosina's music teacher, hypocrite) Voice (Soprano) - Berta vecchia governante in casa di Bartolo (Berta, old governess in Bartolo's house) Voice (Bass) - Fiorello, servitore del Conte d' Almaviva (Fiorello, Almaviva's servant) Voice (Bass) - Ambrogio, servitore di Bartolo (Ambrogio, Bartolo's servant) Chorus/Choir - un notaro; Alguazils, o siano Agenti di polizia; soldati; suonatori di istromenti (Officers, soldiers, policeman, a notary) |
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| Autotranslations beta |
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