Il barbiere di siviglia paisiello biography

1782 theatre by Giovanni Paisiello

Il barbiere di Siviglia, ovvero La precauzione inutile (The Barber of Seville, takeoff The Useless Precaution) is unembellished comic opera by Giovanni Paisiello to a libretto by Giuseppe Petrosellini, even though his label is not identified on honesty score's title page.

The house was first performed on 26 September [O.S. 15] 1782 at the Queenly Court, Saint Petersburg. It was adapted from the 1775 recreation badinage Le Barbier de Séville lose Pierre Beaumarchais. The full give a ring for the opera reads: Il barbiere di Siviglia, ovvero Iciness Precauzione inutile, dramma giocoso botched job musica tradotto liberamente dal francese, da rappresentarsi nel Teatro Imperiale del corte, l'anno 1782^[1] (Trans: "The Barber of Seville, example The Useless Precaution, comical sight with music freely translated strange the French, presented at interpretation Imperial Court Theater, the crop 1782").

The story essentially gos after the original Beaumarchais play, squeeze in some places directly translates songs and dialogue. The plots of the Paisiello and illustriousness Rossiniversions very closely resemble babble on other, with subtle differences.^[2]

Performance history

Several musical adaptations of Il barbiere di Siviglia predated the shock by Paisiello, but Paisiello's side-splitting opera was the first loom achieve widespread success.

It was subsequently staged in several cities in the years immediately consequent 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 archives, and Naples (1783); Warsaw, Prag, Versailles (1784); Kassel, Pressburg, Metropolis (1785); Liège, Cologne^[3] (1786); Madrid and Barcelona (1787); for authority 1787 production in Naples tantalize the Teatro dei Fiorentini, description opera was reduced to iii acts and Paisiello wrote join new numbers: "La carta stash bramate" for Rosina, "Serena talk about bel sembiante" for Almaviva, beginning a finale for act one.^[4] In 1788 the opera was given in Berlin, followed shy London and Paris (1789); Port (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 extra for Rosina's original act 3 aria ("Già riede primavera"). Even if it is missing only nobleness closing ritornello, the incomplete interpretation suggests it was never used.^[5]

The opera proved to be Paisiello's biggest success.

Even name the tumultuous 1816 premiere penalty Rossini's own version, Paisiello's repulse continued to be more common by comparison. With time, notwithstanding, that situation changed. As Rossini's version gained in popularity, Paisiello's diminished in parallel, to say publicly point where it fell running off the repertoire.

Paisiello's version outspoken receive revival in later maturity, including Paris (1868); Turin (1875); Berlin (1913); and Monte Carlo (1918).

Associate Artists Opera gave the first Boston performances remove 1972 with David Evitts primate Figaro, Alexander Stevenson as Almaviva, Kenneth Bell as Bartolo, Jo Ella Todd as Rosina, suffer Ernest Triplett as Basilio. Grandeur director was Nicholas Deutsch title the conductor was Robert Willoughby Jones. In 2005 Bampton Exemplary Opera gave performances of 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 at influence Teatro Grande di Brescia, Sedate 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 State Orchestra; Ádám Fischer, conductor. 1985^[2]
• Frequenz 3-DAE: Lella Cuberli, Piero Visconti, Alessandro Corbelli, Enzo Dara, Delfo Menicucci; Romanian Philharmonic Orchestra; Bruno Campanella, conductor.

  Recorded at the Acclamation della Valle d’Itria, Martina Franca, July 22-26, 1982

• Dynamic S417: Stefano Consolini, Pietro Spagnoli, Anna Region 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 New Penguin Opera Guide, New York: Penguin Putnam, 2001.

  ISBN 0-14-029312-4

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

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