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THE BARBER of SEVILLE Websites GIOACHINO ROSSINIʼS THE BARBER OF SEVILLE Links to resources and lesson plans related to Rossiniʼs opera, The Barber of Seville. The Aria Database: Il Barbiere di Siviglia http://www.aria- database.com/search.php?sid=e2dbb31103303fb8f096f9929cf13345&X=8&dT=Full&fC=1&searching=yes&t0=all &s0=Barbiere&f0=operaName&dS=arias Information on 8 arias for Il Barbiere di Siviglia, including roles, voice parts, vocal range, synopsisi, with aria libretto and translation. Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project, UC, Santa Barbara. http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?queryType=@attr%201=1016&query=barber+of+seville&num=1&star t=2&sortBy=&sortOrder=ia Download mp3 of a 1902 recording of the overture by the Edison Concert Band. The Guardian: The Good Opera Guide: Rossiniʼs The Barber of Seville http://www.theguardian.com/music/interactive/2013/feb/13/denis-forman-guide-barber-of-seville Online guide for The Barber of Seville. IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library: Il Barbiere di Siviglia http://imslp.org/wiki/Il_barbiere_di_Siviglia_(Rossini,_Gioacchino) Read online or download full music scores and vocal scores for Il Barbiere di Siviglia, music by Gioacchino Rossini. Internet Archive: Capital Public Radio: Friday Night at the Opera 11/13/2009 http://archive.org/details/FridayOpera_091113 This live recording from 1964 stars Sesto Bruscantini, Luigi Alva, Fiorenza Cossotto, and Nicolai Ghiaurov. Gabriele Santini conducts. Internet Archive: Il Barbiere di Siviglia: a comic opera in three acts ([19--?]) http://archive.org/stream/cu31924090833181 Read online or download .pdf of libretto for Rossiniʼs opera, Il Barbiere di Siviglia. In Italian with English Translation. Internet Archive: Rossini: Barber of Seville - Overture http://archive.org/details/RossiniBarberOfSeville-Overture Open Source audio for Barber of Seville Overture. New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Arturo Toscanini, conductor. Internet Archive: Stories from the operas, with short biographies of the composers, third series; ([1910]) http://archive.org/details/storiesfromopera03daviuoft Stories include Rossiniʼs The Barber of Seville. Author: Gladys Davidson. Lyric Opera of Chicago: The Barber of Seville Commentary http://www.lyricopera.org/education/commentaries.aspx Commentary by Jesse Gram, Audience Education Manager SAN FRANCISCO OPERA Education Materials Rossini’s THE BARBER OF SEVILLE Websites Lyric Opera of Chicago: Backstage Pass! The Barber of Seville (Teacherʼs Edition) http://www.lyricopera.org/uploadedFiles/Education/Children_and_Teens/2013- 14%20OIN%20Backstage%20Pass%20-%20Teacher.pdf Teacherʼs guide for Rossiniʼs The Barber of Seville. Manitoba Opera: The Barber of Seville Study Guide 2009/10 Season http://www.manitobaopera.mb.ca/learn/documents/TheBarberofSevilleStudyGuideNov.6.pdf Teacherʼs guide for Rossiniʼs The Barber of Seville. The Metropolitan Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia: “Largo al factotum” http://www.metoperafamily.org/video/search/watch/il-barbiere-di-siviglia-largo-al-factotum-peter- mattei/1864469365001?term=YmFyYmVyIG9mIHNldmlsbGU=#play Act I aria from Rossini's "Il Barbiere di Siviglia." Peter Mattei (Figaro). Conductor: Maurizio Benini. Prodution: Bartlett Sher (2006). 2011-12 season. The Metropolitan Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia: “Ma, Signor” (Act I Finale) http://www.metoperafamily.org/video/search/watch/il-barbiere-di-siviglia-ma-signor-act-i- finale/1864469366001?term=YmFyYmVyIG9mIHNldmlsbGU=#play Act I finale from Rossini's "Il Barbiere di Siviglia." Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez, Peter Mattei, John Del Carlo, John Relyea, Claudia Waite. Conductor: Maurizio Benini. Production: Bartlett Sher (2006). 2006-07 season. The Metropolitan Opera: The Barber of Seville: “Iʼm sweet and gentle” http://www.metoperafamily.org/video/search/watch/the-barber-of-seville-lets-be-quiet-calm-and-clever-leonard- shrader-pogossov/2044805765001?term=YmFyYmVyIG9mIHNldmlsbGU=#play Act I aria from the Met's English-language holiday presentation of Rossini's "The Barber of Seville." Isabel Leonard (Rosina). Conductor: Yves Abel. Production: Bartlett Sher. Translation: J.D. McClatchy. 2012–13 season. The Metropolitan Opera: The Barber of Seville: “Letʼs be quiet, calm and clever” http://www.metoperafamily.org/video/search/watch/the-barber-of-seville-im-sweet-and-gentle-isabel- leonard/2044805764001?term=YmFyYmVyIG9mIHNldmlsbGU=#play Act II trio from the Met's English-language holiday presentation of Rossini's "The Barber of Seville." Isabel Leonard (Rosina), Alek Shrader (Almaviva), Rodion Pogossov (Figaro). Conductor: Yves Abel. Production: Bartlett Sher. 2012–13 season. The Metropolitan Opera Association Archives: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Met Premiere 1883) http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/frame.htm Includes cast list, photograph of Marcella Sembrich as Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Erwin Raupp, and a review from the New York Times. Musopen!: Gioachino Rossini https://musopen.com/music/composer/gioachino-rossini/ Download of Overture (Davis HS Symphony Orchestra) & “Largo Al Factotum” (US Navy Band) The Barber of Seville SAN FRANCISCO OPERA Education Materials Rossini’s THE BARBER OF SEVILLE Websites The National Opera Center: Learning Center: Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) http://www.operaamerica.org/content/education/learningCenter/details.aspx?id=55&id2=44 The synopsis, insights, resources and background notes for “Il Barbiere di Siviglia.” NPRʼs Music: “Rossini's 'The Barber of Seville' from Glimmerglass Opera” http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12451040 Synopsis of the opera. Opera Guide: The Virtual Opera House “Le Nozze di Figaro” http://www.opera-guide.ch/opera.php?id=318&uilang=en The synopsis, libretto, music and highlights for “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” in English. Opera Today: The Barber of Seville, San Diego, 2012 http://www.operatoday.com/content/2008/05/mozart_le_nozze.php Review of the 2012 San Diego production featuring Lucas Meachem as Figaro. Operadis http://www.operadis-opera-discography.org.uk/ This website contains "discographies" which were generated by CLOR of the all opera recordings, including a listing of the 135 recordings of Rossiniʼs The Barber of Seville. CLOR is an Indexed Electronic Catalogue (IEC) on CD-ROM in which it is intended to list all recordings that are or have been commercially available of "complete" operas or of extended excerpts of operas longer than about 20 minutes, i.e. as long or longer than one LP-side. Audio and video recordings are included and the term "opera" is taken to include operettas, opéra-bouffes, G&S, zarzuelas and a few musicals, as well as works normally described as operas. The Online Library of Liberty: Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, The Barber of Seville, or the Useless Precaution [1775] http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1562&Itemid=27 Read online or download Beaumarchaisʼ play The Barber of Seville, or the Useless Precaution, the source material for Rossiniʼs The Barber of Seville. The first of 3 plays Beaumarchais wrote about a master-servant relationship, Count Almaviva and Figaro, during the social upheavals on the eve of the French revolution. San Francisco Classical Voice https://www.sfcv.org/learn/composer-gallery/rossini-gioachino Vital statistics, biographical information and fun facts about composer Gioachino Rossini. San Francisco Opera http://sfopera.com/Season-Tickets/2013-14-Season/The-Barber-of-Seville.aspx The Barber of Seville overview, synopsis and audio exerpts. San Francisco Opera Guild: The Barber of Seville Teacherʼs Guide and Resource Book http://sfopera.com/SanFranciscoOpera/media/SiteAssets/Guild/Barber2013OALC.pdf Teacherʼs guide for Rossiniʼs The Barber of Seville. SAN FRANCISCO OPERA Education Materials Rossini’s THE BARBER OF SEVILLE Websites Seattle Opera http://seattleopera.org/tickets/production.aspx?productionID=92 The Barber of Seville overview, synopsis, video interviews and interactive Spotlight Guide. Stanford Universityʼs Opera Glass http://opera.stanford.edu/Rossini/Barbiere/main.html The Opera Glass website, featuring The Barber of Seville and many other operas, includes detailed information on Libretto, Source Texts, Performance Histories, Synopses, Discographies, Role Creators. YouTube http://www.youtube.com/ There are many video clips of The Marriage of Figaro and other operas that can be viewed on YouTube. SAN FRANCISCO OPERA Education Materials Rossini’s THE BARBER OF SEVILLE Websites .
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