Le Barbier de Seville
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
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)[1]
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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. [2]: pp. 279
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