#the barber of seville

[detroitlib]

Portrait of soprano Reri Grist as Rosina in Rossini's opera, "The Barber of Seville." Printed on front: "Louis Melancon. Metropolitan Opera House, New York City." Louis Melancon, New York, N.Y." Label on back: "Metropolitan Opera Assn., Inc. Press Dept. Reri Grist as Rosina in Rossini's 'Il barbiere di Siviglia.'"

E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts, Detroit Public Library

#reri grist #louis melancon #opera #music #soprano #singers #metropolitan opera #rosina #rossini #il barbiere di siviglia #the barber of seville #vintage #vintage music #singer #detroit public library

[princesssarisa]

The Top 40 Most Popular Operas, Part 1 (#1 through #10)

A quick guide for newcomers to the genre, with links to online video recordings of complete performances with English subtitles.

Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

The most frequently performed opera worldwide: Mozart's fascinating, philosophical fairy tale opera, which appeals to both children and adults.

San Francisco Opera, 2010 (Piotr Beczala, Dina Kuznetsoca, Christopher Maltman, Erika Miklosa, Georg Zeppenfeld; conducted by Donald Runnicles)

Verdi's La Traviata

Tragic romance with social commentary, based on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias, which was also the basis for the classic 1936 Greta Garbo film Camille.

Los Angeles Opera, 2006 (Renée Fleming, Rolando Villazon, Renato Bruson; conducted by James Conlon)

Bizet's Carmen

The fiery tragedy of a seductive, free-spirited Spanish Romani woman and her loves, with some of opera's most iconic music.

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2006 (Anna Caterina Antonacci, Jonas Kaufmann, Ildebrando d'Arcancelo, Norah Ansellem; conducted by Antonio Pappano)

Puccini's La Bohéme

Relatable slice-of-life romance that blends comedy and tragedy. The inspiration for the popular musical RENT.

Studio film, 1965 (Mirella Freni, Gianni Raimondi, Rolando Panerai, Adriana Martino; conducted by Herbert von Karajan)

Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

The best loved of Mozart's Italian operas, a great comedy of class conflict and sexual intrigue.

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1994 (Gerald Finley, Alison Hagley, Renée Fleming, Andreas Schmidt, Marie-Ange Todorovich; conducted by Bernard Haitink)

Puccini's Tosca

Political intrigue, lust, and bloodshed amid the splendor of Rome – some call it a "shabby little shocker," others call it thrilling.

Vienna State Opera, 2019 (Sondra Radvanovsky, Piotr Beczala, Thomas Hampson; conducted by Marco Armiliato)

Mozart's Don Giovanni

Arguably the greatest retelling of the legend of Don Juan, with comedy, drama, and Mozart's glorious music.

Salzburg Festival, 1954 (Cesare Siepi, Otto Edelmann, Elisabeth Grümmer, Anton Dermota, Lisa della Casa, Erna Berger, Walter Berry Deszö Ernster; conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler)

Puccini's Madama Butterfly

Puccini's iconic "Japanese tragedy." Controversial from a racial standpoint, but a tearjerker nonetheless, and the inspiration for the musical Miss Saigon.

Feature film, 1995 (Ying Huang, Richard Troxell, Ning Liang, Richard Cowan; conducted by James Conlon)

Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)

The lighter and more madcap prequel to The Marriage of Figaro, known as the quintessential comic opera.

Vienna State Opera, 2019 (Rafael Fingerlos, Juan Diego Flórez, Margarita Gritskova, Paolo Rumetz, Sorin Coliban; conducted by Evelino Pidò)

Verdi's Rigoletto

A richly melodic tragedy of a hunchbacked jester, his daughter, a lecherous duke, and a self-fulfilling curse.

Studio film, 1982 (Ingvar Wixell, Luciano Pavarotti, Edita Gruberova; conducted by Riccardo Chailly)

#opera #top 40 #part 1 #top 10 #video #complete performances #english subtitles #die zauberflöte #the magic flute #la traviata #carmen #la boheme #le nozze di figaro #the marriage of figaro #tosca #don giovanni #madama butterfly #il barbiere di siviglia #the barber of seville #rigoletto

[opera-shitpost]

No one:

Absolutely no one:

Figaro:

#which figaro? #doesn't matter; both #opera #opera shitpost #opera shitposts #opera memes #figaro #il barbiere di siviglia #the barber of seville #le nozze di figaro #the marriage of figaro #in this house we enjoy feeling schadenfreude for rich people's little inconveniences

[nikolajrostovs]

its all the count and figaro this and susanna and figaro that. No one cares about the figaro relationship of all time (figaro and rosina)

#THEYRE SO DEAR TO ME!!! #the barber of seville #il barbiere di siviglia #the marriage of figaro #le nozze di figaro

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

#opera tag #opera #il barbiere di siviglia #the barber of seville #rossini #gioachino rossini #la opera #lmaooooooooo #choose your character but all the characters are the same person

[leporellian]

figaros various (someday i will manage to make a non-shitty drawing but today is not that day)

#theres another thing i need to draw from tuesday (and upcoming sunday)'s barber outing(s) remind me . #the barber of seville #the marriage of figaro #figaro #opera tag #misc scribbling

[queen-paladin]

#opera #puccini #verdi #mozart #cherubini #classical music #operas #operablr #tosca #la boheme #falstaff #the magic flute #medea #rossini #the barber of seville #the marriage of figaro #cosi fan tutte

[denisemariaworld]

#looney toons #bugs bunny #classic cartoons #the barber of seville #Youtube

[dolokhoded]

what i really love about figaro being a barber is that it serves absolutely no purpose to the plot. it's such a random ass useless part of the story and it has no reason to be written in. literally none. and on top of it all it's a Big Thing too the entire opera is called the BARBER of seville he has an entire cavatina talking about what an absolutely spectacular barber he is and that's how he's introduced to us. it's not going to contribute to the plot in any way. but you have to know.

#il barbiere di siviglia #the barber of seville #(in the opera at least I haven't read the play i don't know if he like breaks down the door with comically oversized barber equipment #or something) #AND IT'S NOT EVEN USED TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE PLOT EITHER HE DOESN'T EVEN LIKE #it's not even used as an excuse to why he's allowed in and out of basilio's house he's not like 'oh im their barber' he's their MEDIC #(which hes absolutely not qualified for btw. i refuse to believe he has any idea what he's talking about.) #it's not used so they can get into the house. he doesn't go 'ok so we'll say i have an appointment to fix rosina's hair' or something NO SI #he's too ELABORATE for that he has to be like 'so you'll pretend you're a DRUNK SOLDIER. why are you drunk? idk lol. for the shits of it.' #beaumarchais was rlly just writing shit. #and rossini saw that libretto and went yes this. this is the one. #mozart i get he's mozart but rossini girl what are you doing !!!!!

[opera-ghosts]

Italian coloratura soprano Luisa Tetrazzini (1871-1940) / Una voce poco fa / Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini) / Recorded: August 8, 1904.

Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia was premiered in Rome on this day in 1816.

#classical music #opera #music history #bel canto #composer #classical composer #aria #classical studies #maestro #chest voice #dramatic coloratura soprano #coloratura soprano #soprano #Soprano sfogato #contralto #Luisa Tetrazzini #The Florentine Nightingale #The Nightingale #Il barbiere di Siviglia #The Barber of Seville #Gioachino Rossini #Una voce poco fa #Covent Garden #classical musician #classical musicians #classical history #history of music #historian of music #musician #musicians

[supercantaloupe]

this moment was too good i had to turn it into the world's stupidest drawing

#art and soul #il barbiere di siviglia #the barber of seville #rosina #doctor bartolo #bartolo #this looks like shit but. intentionally this time <3 #it was so funny. i needed to get real Stupid and exaggerated with the expressions. it's fun

[opera-music-tourney]

ROUND 1 : OVERTURES

Songs under the cut

#opera #opera music #jacques offenbach #orpheus in the underworld #otto nicolai #the merry wives of windsor #georges bizet #carmen #ruggero leoncavallo #pagliacci #wolfgang amadeus mozart #the magic flute #the marriage of figaro #gioachino rossini #the barber of seville #giacomo puccini #turnadot #giuseppe verdi #rigoletto #johann strauss ii #die fledermaus #Youtube

[princesssarisa]

Where do you watch operas?

There are plenty of complete filmed opera performances available on YouTube, which you can watch for free. Unfortunately, not all of them have English subtitles, but if necessary, you can always find a translation of the libretto online to follow along with.

In fact, just for fun, as an example, I'll provide some links to complete filmed performances of the world's top 10 most popular operas, with English subtitles.

Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)

Studio film, 1971 (Nicolai Gedda, Edith Mathis, William Workman, Christina Deutekom, Hans Sotin; directed by Sir Peter Ustinov; conducted by Horst Stein)

La Traviata

Studio film, 1968 (Anna Moffo, Franco Bonisolli, Gino Bechi; directed by Mario Lanfranchi; conducted by Giuseppe Patané)

Carmen

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2006 (Anna Caterina Antonacci, Jonas Kaufmann, Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Norah Ansellem; staged by Francesca Zambello; conducted by Antonio Pappano)

La Bohéme

Studio film, 1965 (Mirella Freni, Gianni Raimondi, Rolando Panerai, Adriana Martino; directed by Franco Zeffirelli; conducted by Herbert von Karajan)

Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

Teatro alla Scala, 2006 (Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Diana Damrau, Marcella Orsatti Talamanca, Pietro Spagnoli, Monica Bacelli; staged by Giorgio Strehler; conducted by Gérard Korsten)

Tosca

Teatro Real de Madrid, 2004 (Daniela Dessí, Fabio Armiliato, Ruggero Raimondi; staged by Nuria Espert; conducted by Maurizio Benini)

Madama Butterfly

Theatrical film, 1995 (Ying Huang, Richard Troxell, Ning Liang, Richard Cowan; directed by Frédéric Mitterand; conducted by James Conlon)

Don Giovanni

Zurich Opera, 2001 (Rodney Gilfry, László Polgár, Isabel Rey, Cecilia Bartoli, Liliana Nikiteanu, Roberto Saccá, Oliver Wimer, Matti Salminen; staged by Jürgen Flimm; conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt)

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)

Metropolitan Opera, 2007 (Peter Mattei, Juan Diego Florez, Joyce diDonato, John Del Carlo, John Relyea; staged by Bartlett Sher; conducted by Maurizio Benini)

Act I, Act II

Rigoletto

Studio film, 1982 (Ingvar Wixell, Luciano Pavarotti, Edita Gruberova; directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle; conducted by Riccardo Chailly)

#opera #complete performance #die zauberflöte #the magic flute #la traviata #carmen #la boheme #le nozze di figaro #the marriage of figaro #tosca #madama butterfly #don giovanni #il barbiere di siviglia #the barber of seville #rigoletto #english subtitles #youtube

[opera-shitpost]

tfw you married a charming leggiero tenor who sang you some beautiful serenades and went to ridiculous lengths to make sure that you loved him for himself and not for his title or money, and 3 years into your marriage he becomes a nasty jealous baritone who constantly cheats on you and sides with the very people he was previously up against…

#a moment of silence for our girl rosina #opera #opera shitpost #opera shitposts #opera as memes #il barbiere di siviglia #the barber of seville #rossini #gioachino rossini #le nozze di figaro #the marriage of figaro #mozart #wolfgang amadeus mozart

[nikolajrostovs]

Hi! Do you like operas? Do you like discord servers? Well i have some good news for you!

Anyone who's interested is free to join. You don't have to be an opera expert or anything, because i certainly am not. It's a very new server so i'm still setting up some things, but i do hope to see some members! Cheers.

oh and it'd be great if you could reblog this so more people see it. But only if you want to

Invite link expires on march 24th, 2024. Just dm me if you want a new link after that date!

#le nozze di figaro #the marriage of figaro #il barbiere di siviglia #the barber of seville #the magic flute #die zauberflöte #la bohème #tosca #...and those are all the operas i can name #operablr #eugene onegin

[queer-reader-07]

not to be an opera bitch on main but i just remembered my opera house is doing the barber of seville in two months and that's one of my favorite operas for nostalgia reasons (it was one of the first ones i ever saw with my dad)

anyway point is i'm excited for the future again because it includes a new staging of the barber of seville

#i <3 rossini's operas #people say opera isn't easy to go feral over #but i disagree #the barber of seville #gioachino rossini #opera #personal