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''[[Le Barbier de Seville]]'' is the common title used to refer to ''Il Barbiere di Siviglia'', the famous opera by Gioachino Rossini. However, it can also refer to the original four act comedy ''[[Le Barbier de Seville, ou La Précaution Inutile]]'' by Beaumarchais, on which the opera is based.
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'''See ''[[Le Barbier de Seville, ou La Précaution Inutile]]'''''
 
 
 
 
 
''[[Le Barbier de Seville, ou la Précaution Inutile]]'' is a comedy in four acts by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (usually referred to simply as "Beaumarchais", 1732-1799)[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Augustin_Caron_de_Beaumarchais]
 
 
 
==The original text==
 
 
 
Written as the first of a trilogy of plays entitled ''[[Le Roman de la Famille Almaviva]]'', with the others being ''Le Mariage de Figaro'' (1778) and ''L'Autre Tartuffe ou La Mère coupable'' (1792).
 
 
 
First performed in Paris on 23 and 25 February, 1775 at the Comédie-Française and was published by Ruault, Paris, in the same year.
 
 
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
Translated into [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Barbier van Seville, of De Onnutte Voorzorg]]'', published in 1793.
 
 
 
It was twice adapted into an opera:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
''[[Il Barbiere di Siviglia]]''  by Gioachino Rossini.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/worp001gesc02_01/worp001gesc02_01_0019.php
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855''. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 279
 
 
 
 
 
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