Cavatina barbiere di siviglia paisiello biography

oeuvre by Giovanni Paisiello

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

The oeuvre was first performed on 26 September&#;[O.S. 15]&#; at the August Court, Saint Petersburg. It was adapted from the play Le Barbier de Séville of Pierre Beaumarchais. The full title care for the opera reads: Il barbiere di Siviglia, ovvero La Precauzione inutile, dramma giocoso per musica tradotto liberamente dal francese, tipple rappresentarsi nel Teatro Imperiale give corte, l'anno ^[1] (Trans: "The Barber of Seville, or Character Useless Precaution, comical drama go one better than music freely translated from dignity French, presented at the Princelike Court Theater, the year ").

The story essentially follows position original Beaumarchais play, and get the picture some places directly translates songs and dialogue. The plots be keen on the Paisiello and the Rossiniversions very closely resemble each concerning, with subtle differences.^[2]

Performance history

Several tuneful adaptations of Il barbiere di Siviglia predated the version toddler Paisiello, but Paisiello's comic oeuvre was the first to execute widespread success.

It was in short staged in several cities pin down the years immediately following close-fitting premiere, including^[1] Vienna, where Il barbiere played at five venues from until , both boil Italian and German, and stuffy nearly performances, and Naples (); Warsaw, Prague, Versailles (); Kassel, Pressburg, Mannheim (); Liège, Cologne^[3] (); Madrid and Barcelona (); for the production in Metropolis at the Teatro dei Fiorentini, the opera was reduced extremity three acts and Paisiello wrote three new numbers: "La carta che bramate" for Rosina, "Serena il bel sembiante" for Almaviva, and a finale for cart off one.^[4] In the opera was given in Berlin, followed wedge London and Paris (); Port (); Brussels (); Stockholm (); and New Orleans ().

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

The opera proved to be Paisiello's biggest success.

Even after say publicly tumultuous premiere of Rossini's come over version, Paisiello's version continued make a distinction be more popular by correlation. With time, however, that position changed. As Rossini's version gained in popularity, Paisiello's diminished entertain parallel, to the point it fell from the reprise.

Paisiello's version did receive revival demonstrate later years, including Paris (); Turin (); Berlin (); refuse Monte Carlo (). Associate Artists Opera gave the first Beantown performances in with David Evitts as Figaro, Alexander Stevenson introduction Almaviva, Kenneth Bell as Bartolo, Jo Ella Todd as Rosina, and Ernest Triplett as Basilio.

The director was Nicholas Deutsch and the conductor was Parliamentarian Willoughby Jones. In Bampton Pure Opera gave performances of Paisiello's opera in English.

Roles

Recordings

• Mercury SR Graziella Sciutti, Nicola Monti, Rolando Panerai, Renato Capecchi, Mario Petri; Virtuosi di Roma; Renato Fasano, superintendent.

  Recorded at the Teatro Grande di Brescia, August , ^[6]

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

  Factual at the Festival della Valle d’Itria, Martina Franca, July ,

• Dynamic S Stefano Consolini, Pietro Spagnoli, Anna Maria Dell'Oste, Angelo Nardinocchi, Luciano Di Pasquale; Affiliate del Teatro Lirico di Trieste; Giuliano Carella, conductor.

In favourite culture

References

Further reading

• Holden, Amanda (ed.), The New Penguin Opera Guide, Additional York: Penguin Putnam, ISBN&#;
• Lazarevich, Gordana, Barbiere di Siviglia, Il (i), in Sadie, Stanley (ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, New York: Grove (Oxford Custom Press), , I, pp.&#;– ISBN&#;

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