GIOACHINO ROSSINIʼS THE BARBER OF SEVILLE
Links to resources and lesson plans related to Rossiniʼs opera, The Barber of Seville.
The Aria Database: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
http://www.ariadatabase.com/search.php?sid=e2dbb31103303fb8f096f9929cf13345&X=8&dT=Full&fC=1&searching=yes&t0=all
&s0=Barbiere&f0=operaName&dS=arias
Information on 8 arias for Il Barbiere di Siviglia, including roles, voice parts, vocal range, synopsisi, with aria
libretto and translation.
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project, UC, Santa Barbara.
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?queryType=@attr%201=1016&query=barber+of+seville&num=1&star
t=2&sortBy=&sortOrder=ia
Download mp3 of a 1902 recording of the overture by the Edison Concert Band.
The Guardian: The Good Opera Guide: Rossiniʼs The Barber of Seville
http://www.theguardian.com/music/interactive/2013/feb/13/denis-forman-guide-barber-of-seville
Online guide for The Barber of Seville.
IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
http://imslp.org/wiki/Il_barbiere_di_Siviglia_(Rossini,_Gioacchino)
Read online or download full music scores and vocal scores for Il Barbiere di Siviglia, music by Gioacchino
Rossini.
Internet Archive: Capital Public Radio: Friday Night at the Opera 11/13/2009
http://archive.org/details/FridayOpera_091113
This live recording from 1964 stars Sesto Bruscantini, Luigi Alva, Fiorenza Cossotto, and Nicolai Ghiaurov.
Gabriele Santini conducts.
Internet Archive: Il Barbiere di Siviglia: a comic opera in three acts ([19--?])
http://archive.org/stream/cu31924090833181
Read online or download .pdf of libretto for Rossiniʼs opera, Il Barbiere di Siviglia. In Italian with English
Translation.
Internet Archive: Rossini: Barber of Seville - Overture
http://archive.org/details/RossiniBarberOfSeville-Overture
Open Source audio for Barber of Seville Overture. New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Arturo Toscanini,
conductor.
Internet Archive: Stories from the operas, with short biographies of the composers, third series; ([1910])
http://archive.org/details/storiesfromopera03daviuoft
Stories include Rossiniʼs The Barber of Seville. Author: Gladys Davidson.
Lyric Opera of Chicago: The Barber of Seville Commentary
http://www.lyricopera.org/education/commentaries.aspx
Commentary by Jesse Gram, Audience Education Manager
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA Education Materials Rossini’s THE BARBER OF SEVILLE Websites
Lyric Opera of Chicago: Backstage Pass! The Barber of Seville (Teacherʼs Edition)
http://www.lyricopera.org/uploadedFiles/Education/Children_and_Teens/201314%20OIN%20Backstage%20Pass%20-%20Teacher.pdf
Teacherʼs guide for Rossiniʼs The Barber of Seville.
Manitoba Opera: The Barber of Seville Study Guide 2009/10 Season
http://www.manitobaopera.mb.ca/learn/documents/TheBarberofSevilleStudyGuideNov.6.pdf
Teacherʼs guide for Rossiniʼs The Barber of Seville.
The Metropolitan Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia: “Largo al factotum”
http://www.metoperafamily.org/video/search/watch/il-barbiere-di-siviglia-largo-al-factotum-petermattei/1864469365001?term=YmFyYmVyIG9mIHNldmlsbGU=#play
Act I aria from Rossini's "Il Barbiere di Siviglia." Peter Mattei (Figaro). Conductor: Maurizio Benini. Prodution:
Bartlett Sher (2006). 2011-12 season.
The Metropolitan Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia: “Ma, Signor” (Act I Finale)
http://www.metoperafamily.org/video/search/watch/il-barbiere-di-siviglia-ma-signor-act-ifinale/1864469366001?term=YmFyYmVyIG9mIHNldmlsbGU=#play
Act I finale from Rossini's "Il Barbiere di Siviglia." Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez, Peter Mattei, John Del
Carlo, John Relyea, Claudia Waite. Conductor: Maurizio Benini. Production: Bartlett Sher (2006). 2006-07 season.
The Metropolitan Opera: The Barber of Seville: “Iʼm sweet and gentle”
http://www.metoperafamily.org/video/search/watch/the-barber-of-seville-lets-be-quiet-calm-and-clever-leonardshrader-pogossov/2044805765001?term=YmFyYmVyIG9mIHNldmlsbGU=#play
Act I aria from the Met's English-language holiday presentation of Rossini's "The Barber of Seville." Isabel
Leonard (Rosina). Conductor: Yves Abel. Production: Bartlett Sher. Translation: J.D. McClatchy. 2012–13 season.
The Metropolitan Opera: The Barber of Seville: “Letʼs be quiet, calm and clever”
http://www.metoperafamily.org/video/search/watch/the-barber-of-seville-im-sweet-and-gentle-isabelleonard/2044805764001?term=YmFyYmVyIG9mIHNldmlsbGU=#play
Act II trio from the Met's English-language holiday presentation of Rossini's "The Barber of Seville." Isabel
Leonard (Rosina), Alek Shrader (Almaviva), Rodion Pogossov (Figaro). Conductor: Yves Abel. Production:
Bartlett Sher. 2012–13 season.
The Metropolitan Opera Association Archives: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Met Premiere 1883)
http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/frame.htm
Includes cast list, photograph of Marcella Sembrich as Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Erwin Raupp, and a
review from the New York Times.
Musopen!: Gioachino Rossini
https://musopen.com/music/composer/gioachino-rossini/
Download of Overture (Davis HS Symphony Orchestra) & “Largo Al Factotum” (US Navy Band) The Barber of
Seville
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA Education Materials Rossini’s THE BARBER OF SEVILLE Websites
The National Opera Center: Learning Center: Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)
http://www.operaamerica.org/content/education/learningCenter/details.aspx?id=55&id2=44
The synopsis, insights, resources and background notes for “Il Barbiere di Siviglia.”
NPRʼs Music: “Rossini's 'The Barber of Seville' from Glimmerglass Opera”
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12451040
Synopsis of the opera.
Opera Guide: The Virtual Opera House “Le Nozze di Figaro”
http://www.opera-guide.ch/opera.php?id=318&uilang=en
The synopsis, libretto, music and highlights for “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” in English.
Opera Today: The Barber of Seville, San Diego, 2012
http://www.operatoday.com/content/2008/05/mozart_le_nozze.php
Review of the 2012 San Diego production featuring Lucas Meachem as Figaro.
Operadis
http://www.operadis-opera-discography.org.uk/
This website contains "discographies" which were generated by CLOR of the all opera recordings, including a
listing of the 135 recordings of Rossiniʼs The Barber of Seville. CLOR is an Indexed Electronic Catalogue (IEC)
on CD-ROM in which it is intended to list all recordings that are or have been commercially available of "complete"
operas or of extended excerpts of operas longer than about 20 minutes, i.e. as long or longer than one LP-side.
Audio and video recordings are included and the term "opera" is taken to include operettas, opéra-bouffes, G&S,
zarzuelas and a few musicals, as well as works normally described as operas.
The Online Library of Liberty: Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, The Barber of Seville, or the
Useless Precaution [1775]
http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1562&Itemid=27
Read online or download Beaumarchaisʼ play The Barber of Seville, or the Useless Precaution, the source
material for Rossiniʼs The Barber of Seville. The first of 3 plays Beaumarchais wrote about a master-servant
relationship, Count Almaviva and Figaro, during the social upheavals on the eve of the French revolution.
San Francisco Classical Voice
https://www.sfcv.org/learn/composer-gallery/rossini-gioachino
Vital statistics, biographical information and fun facts about composer Gioachino Rossini.
San Francisco Opera
http://sfopera.com/Season-Tickets/2013-14-Season/The-Barber-of-Seville.aspx
The Barber of Seville overview, synopsis and audio exerpts.
San Francisco Opera Guild: The Barber of Seville Teacherʼs Guide and Resource Book
http://sfopera.com/SanFranciscoOpera/media/SiteAssets/Guild/Barber2013OALC.pdf
Teacherʼs guide for Rossiniʼs The Barber of Seville.
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA Education Materials Rossini’s THE BARBER OF SEVILLE Websites
Seattle Opera
http://seattleopera.org/tickets/production.aspx?productionID=92
The Barber of Seville overview, synopsis, video interviews and interactive Spotlight Guide.
Stanford Universityʼs Opera Glass
http://opera.stanford.edu/Rossini/Barbiere/main.html
The Opera Glass website, featuring The Barber of Seville and many other operas, includes detailed information
on Libretto, Source Texts, Performance Histories, Synopses, Discographies, Role Creators.
YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/
There are many video clips of The Marriage of Figaro and other operas that can be viewed on YouTube.
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA Education Materials Rossini’s THE BARBER OF SEVILLE Websites