Difference between revisions of "Le Barbier de Seville"

From ESAT
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Line 3: Line 3:
 
'''See ''[[Le Barbier de Seville, ou La Précaution Inutile]]'''''
 
'''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
 
 
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
  
 
== Return to ==
 
== Return to ==

Revision as of 05:46, 18 March 2016

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.

See Le Barbier de Seville, ou La Précaution Inutile


Return to

Return to PLAYS I: Original SA plays

Return to PLAYS II: Foreign plays

Return to PLAYS III: Collections

Return to PLAYS IV: Pageants and public performances

Return to South African Festivals and Competitions

Return to The ESAT Entries

Return to Main Page