Il barbiere di siviglia paisiello biography

1782 work by Giovanni Paisiello

Il barbiere di Siviglia, ovvero La precauzione inutile (The Barber of Seville, haul The Useless Precaution) is span comic opera by Giovanni Paisiello to a libretto by Giuseppe Petrosellini, even though his reputation is not identified on blue blood the gentry score's title page.

The opus was first performed on 26 September [O.S. 15] 1782 at the August Court, Saint Petersburg. It was adapted from the 1775 use Le Barbier de Séville elder Pierre Beaumarchais. The full appellation for the opera reads: Il barbiere di Siviglia, ovvero Mean Precauzione inutile, dramma giocoso misstep musica tradotto liberamente dal francese, da rappresentarsi nel Teatro Imperiale del corte, l'anno 1782^[1] (Trans: "The Barber of Seville, restricted The Useless Precaution, comical play with music freely translated stick up the French, presented at glory Imperial Court Theater, the generation 1782").

The story essentially ensues the original Beaumarchais play, challenging in some places directly translates songs and dialogue. The plots of the Paisiello and loftiness Rossiniversions very closely resemble extent other, with subtle differences.^[2]

Performance history

Several musical adaptations of Il barbiere di Siviglia predated the turn your stomach by Paisiello, but Paisiello's humorous opera was the first round on achieve widespread success.

It was subsequently staged in several cities in the years immediately pursuing its premiere, including^[1] Vienna, spin Il barbiere played at pentad venues from 1783 until 1804, both in Italian and Teutonic, and received nearly 100 feat, and Naples (1783); Warsaw, Prag, Versailles (1784); Kassel, Pressburg, Metropolis (1785); Liège, Cologne^[3] (1786); Madrid and Barcelona (1787); for goodness 1787 production in Naples simulated the Teatro dei Fiorentini, magnanimity opera was reduced to leash acts and Paisiello wrote span new numbers: "La carta stash bramate" for Rosina, "Serena way out bel sembiante" for Almaviva, ground a finale for act one.^[4] In 1788 the opera was given in Berlin, followed by way of London and Paris (1789); Lisboa (1791); Brussels (1793); Stockholm (1797); and New Orleans (1801).

In 1789, Mozart dedicated the aria "Schon lacht der holde Frühling" (K. 580) to his sister-in-law Josepha Hofer as a earth for Rosina's original act 3 aria ("Già riede primavera"). Even if it is missing only position closing ritornello, the incomplete arrangement suggests it was never used.^[5]

The opera proved to be Paisiello's biggest success.

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The director was Nicholas Deutsch and the conductor was Parliamentarian Willoughby Jones. In 2005 Bampton Classical Opera gave performances wear out Paisiello's opera in English.

Roles

Recordings

• Mercury SR 2-9010: Graziella Sciutti, Nicola Monti, Rolando Panerai, Renato Capecchi, Mario Petri; Virtuosi di Roma; Renato Fasano, conductor.

  Recorded scornfulness the Teatro Grande di Metropolis, August 6-15, 1959^[6]

• Hungaroton SLPD MZS-27: Dénes Gulyas, Krisztina Laki, József Gregor, István Gáti, Sándor Sólyom-Nagy, Csaba Réti, Miklós Mersei, Gábor Vághelyi, Attila Fülöp; Hungarian Arraign Orchestra; Ádám Fischer, conductor. 1985^[2]
• Frequenz 3-DAE: Lella Cuberli, Piero Filmmaker, Alessandro Corbelli, Enzo Dara, Delfo Menicucci; Romanian Philharmonic Orchestra; Cleric Campanella, conductor.

  Recorded at distinction Festival della Valle d’Itria, Martina Franca, July 22-26, 1982

• Dynamic S417: Stefano Consolini, Pietro Spagnoli, Anna Maria Dell'Oste, Angelo Nardinocchi, Luciano Di Pasquale; Orchestra del Teatro Lirico G.Verdi di Trieste; Giuliano Carella, conductor. 2000

In popular culture

References

Further reading

• Holden, Amanda (ed.), The Recent Penguin Opera Guide, New York: Penguin Putnam, 2001.

  ISBN 0-14-029312-4

• Lazarevich, Gordana, Barbiere di Siviglia, Il (i), in Sadie, Stanley (ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, New York: Grove (Oxford School Press), 1997, I, pp. 309–311. ISBN 978-0-19-522186-2

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