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''The Barber of Seville, or The Futile Precaution'' ((イタリア語:Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione) (:il barˈbjɛːre di siˈviʎʎa osˈsiːa l iˈnuːtile prekautˈtsjoːne)) is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's French comedy ''Le Barbier de Séville'' (1775). The première of Rossini's opera (under the title ''Almaviva, o sia L'inutile precauzione'') took place on 20 February 1816 at the Teatro Argentina, Rome.〔Casaglia, Gherardo, ("20 Febbraio 1816" ), ''Almanacco Amadeus'', 2005〕 Rossini's ''Barber'' has proven to be one of the greatest masterpieces of comedy within music, and has been described as the opera buffa of all "opere buffe". Even after two hundred years, its popularity on the modern opera stage attests to that greatness.〔Fisher, Burton D., ''The Barber of Seville'' (Opera Classics Library Series). Grand Rapids: Opera Journeys, 2005.〕 ==Composition history== Rossini's opera recounts the events of the first of the three plays by French playwright Pierre Beaumarchais that revolve around the clever and enterprising character named Figaro. Mozart's opera ''Le nozze di Figaro,'' composed 30 years earlier in 1786, is based on the second part of the Beaumarchais trilogy. The first Beaumarchais play was originally conceived as an opéra comique, but was rejected as such by the Comédie-Italienne.〔Weinstock 1968, p. 54; Oborne, Charles 1994, p. 57.〕 The play as it is now known was premiered in 1775 by the Comédie-Française at the Théâtre des Tuileries in Paris.〔Cordier 1883, (p. 13 ).〕 Other operas based on the first play were composed by Giovanni Paisiello (his ''Il barbiere di Siviglia'' premiered in 1782), by Nicolas Isouard in 1796, and then by Francesco Morlacchi in 1816. Though the work of Paisiello triumphed for a time, only Rossini's version has stood the test of time and continues to be a mainstay of operatic repertoire. On 11 November 1868, two days before Rossini's death, the composer Costantino Dall'Argine (1842–1877) premiered an opera based on the same libretto as Rossini's work,〔Weinstock 1968, p. 366.〕 bearing a dedication to Rossini. The premiere was not a failure, but critics condemned the "audacity" of the young composer and the work is now forgotten.〔 Rossini was well known for being remarkably productive, completing an average of two operas per year for 19 years, and in some years writing as many as four. Musicologists believe that, true to form, the music for ''Il Barbiere di Siviglia'' was composed in just under three weeks,〔Osborne, Richard 2007, (pp. 38–41 ).〕 although the famous overture was actually recycled from two earlier Rossini operas, ''Aureliano in Palmira'' and ''Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra'' and thus contains none of the thematic material in ''Il Barbiere di Siviglia'' itself. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Barber of Seville」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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