Gioacchino Rossini "The Barber of Seville"
Joacchino Rossini Opera in 2 acts (performed with 2 intermissions) Libretto by Cesare Sterbini based on the comedy of the same name Pierre Auguste Caron de Beaumarchais Duration of the performance with intermissions: 3 hours Gioacchino Rossini wrote The Barber of Seville in an astonishingly short time — twenty days in advance. The premiere took place on February 20, 1816. The opera was created on the plot of the comedy of the same name - the first part of the famous trilogy of the French playwright P. Beaumarchais (1773). Appearing shortly before the French bourgeois revolution, it was directed against the feudal absolutist regime, exposed the negative features of the aristocracy. The cheerful love and sparkling fun of the "Barber of Seville" has preserved sincere opera the sincere love of the masses of listeners to this day ... The Barber of Seville attracts with inexhaustible wit, melodious generosity and virtuoso splendor of vocal parts. The work is characterized by the characteristic features of the Italian opera buffa: the rapid dynamics of the stage action, a large number of comic situations.