The Barber of Seville: A Comic Masterpiece By Rossini

08/14/23 • 1 min

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The Barber of Seville is an opera by Rossini and ‘perhaps the greatest of all comic operas’. Take a minute to get the scoop!
Fun Fact
Rossini's Barber of Seville is considered to be one of the greatest masterpieces of comedy within music, and has been described as the opera buffa of all "opere buffe".
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08/14/23 • 1 min

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The Classical Music Minute - The Barber of Seville: A Comic Masterpiece By Rossini

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The Barber of Seville is a two act opera by Rossini. It is based on a play called Le Barbier de Séville by French playwright Pierre Beaumarchais, and is the first of three plays about a character called Figaro.

His second play was the inspiration for another opera you might have heard of, The Marriage of Figaro. The Barber of Seville, is considered a prequel to the story of Mozart’s opera, though it was composed 30 years later.

The premiere took place at the Teatro Argentina in

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