Il Barbiere di Siviglia | Opera Film (1947)

The Barber of Seville (Italian: Il barbiere di Siviglia) is a 1947 Italian opera film directed by Mario Costa and starring Ferruccio Tagliavini, Tito Gobbi and Nelly Corradi. It is an adaptation of Gioachino Rossini's 1816 opera The Barber of Seville.

The Barber of Seville, or The Futile Precaution (Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione) is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's comedy Le Barbier de Séville (1775), which was originally an opéra comique, or a mixture of spoken play with music. The première (under the title Almaviva, or the Futile Precaution) took place on 20 February 1816, at the Teatro Argentina, Rome.

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.

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, the barber of the title. Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro, composed 30 years earlier in 1786, is based on the second part of the Beaumarchais trilogy.

Place: Seville, Spain
Time: 18th century

Performers and characters:
Ferruccio Tagliavini: Conte d'Almaviva
Tito Gobbi: Figaro
Nelly Corradi: Rosina
Vito De Taranto: don Bartolo
Italo Tajo: Don Basilio
Natalia Nicolini: Berta
Nino Mazziotti: Fiorello
The Orchestra and Chorus: Teatro dell"Opera di Roma
Conductor: Giuseppe Morelli

Il Barbiere di Siviglia Libretto: https://www.opera-arias.com/rossini/il-barbiere-di-siviglia/libretto/
English Translation: https://www.opera-arias.com/rossini/il-barbiere-di-siviglia/libretto/english/