El barbaro de sevilla pavarotti biography

Intrigue, disguises, and love triumphant: It’s all in a day’s work for Figaro, the barber of Seville.

El barbaro de sevilla pavarotti biography

By the time Gioachino Rossini sat down in 1816 to write his great comic opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia, both he and his leading character already enjoyed immense popularity and far-reaching fame. At just 24 years of age, Rossini was harvesting the fruits of international acclaim that he would savor for the rest of his life.

And in the 41 years since Figaro had first set foot on the Parisian stage, in a play by the French watchmaker-turned-nobleman Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, the quick-witted barber had been feted by emperors, feared by kings, and embraced by two generations of composers and poets.

Wily, witty, and urbane, Figaro cut a dashing figure on the stage.

But it was Rossini’s music that granted the beloved barber his immortality. Soaring lyricism, subtle musical characterizations, and infinitely hummable melodies brin