The++Barber+of+Seville

=The Barber of Seville= //The Barber of Seville// is an Italian comedic opera by Giochino Rossini and Cesare Sterbini in 1816. It is considered to be one of the most famous and beloved operas in modern times. It was based on a play by Pierre Beaumarchais that debuted in 1775 and competed with it for popularity.

//The Barber of Seville// tells the story of the rich and powerful Count Almaviva, who has secretly fallen in love with the beautiful Rosina. The Count doesn't want Rosina to love him for his riches, so he enlists the help of his servant Figaro, the barber of Seville, who helps Almaviva disguise himself as a working class man. The Count, while in disguise runs into all sorts of trouble. Rosina is interested in him, but she has other suitors who'll stop at nothing to prevent the Count, who they think is a servant actually betraying the Count, from winning Rosina's hand. Along the way, Almaviva and Figaro evade the police, trick the other suitors, and manage to get Rosina to fall in love with him.

The opera's first appearance in February 1816, at the Teatro Argentina in Rome, was said to have been very sloppy, in fact one of the opera's worst performances. That was not a very good debut for The Barber. Soon, though, the opera then became very well known and was performed all over the Europe and even in New York. Today //The Barber of Seville// is one of the most popular operas in the United States, because of the humor and romance it has in store for its audiences.