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The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution ( Italian: Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione [il barˈbjɛːre di siˈviʎʎa osˈsiːa liˈnuːtile prekautˈtsjoːne]) is an opera buffa in two acts composed by Gioachino Rossini with an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais 's ...
3 acts. Castil-Blaze after Destouches. (consists of music by Rossini and other composers, including Domenico Cimarosa and Giacomo Meyerbeer) Before June 1826. Théâtre de Madame, Paris. Le Neveu de Monseigneur. pastiche. 2 acts. Jean-François Bayard, Thomas Sauvage and Romieu.
Rossini’s Barber didn’t get its current name until two months after Paisiello died. The premiere took place in Rome, at the Teatro Argentina, on February 20, 1816, with Rossini conducting. Luigi Zamboni sang Figaro, Manuel García (who was reportedly paid more for singing than Rossini was for writing the opera) sang Almaviva, and Geltrude Righetti-Giorgi sang Rosina.
Gioachino Rossini. From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Gioachino Rossini. Gioachino Rossini (born Pesaro 29 February 1792; died Passy 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer. He was the most famous composer of operas in his time. His operas had lots of new ideas. Italian operas had become rather unimaginative, with composers ...
Gioachino Rossini. Gioachino Rossini - de fapt Giovacchino Antonio Rossini (n. 29 februarie 1792, Pisaurum, Statele Papale – d. 13 noiembrie 1868, Passy (d), Île-de-France, Franța) a fost un compozitor de operă din Italia .
When Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) spontaneously decided to retire in 1829, he was universally considered the most popular opera composer in history. No other composer enjoyed his prestige, popular acclaim and artistic influence, and his earliest biographer described him as “a genuine thunderbolt out of a clear, blue sky for the Italian lyric ...
Rossini was born in Pesaro in 1793, the son of a town trumpeter-cum-inspector of slaughterhouses, whose questionable political sympathies once resulted in a short jail sentence. The family was otherwise constantly on the move, Rossini's mother appearing as a principal singer in a series of comic opera productions, while the budding young composer learned his craft, based in Bologna.
