GIOACHINO ROSSINI
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA
CONTENTS
P.
4
SYNOPSIS P.
8
“WHAT ON EARTH WAS THAT?” INTERVIEW WITH HERBERT FRITSCH P.
18
PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION MICHELE MARIOTTI
P.
22
ROSSINI AND THE OPERA BUFFA ARNOLD JACOBSHAGEN P.
34
IT’S MY TURN TO SPEAK GELTRUDE RIGHETTI-GIORGI P.
42
IMPRINT
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA COMMEDIA in two acts Libretto CESARE STERBINI Source Le Barbier de Séville ou La Précaution inutile (1775) by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
ORCHESTRA
2 flutes (also piccolo) 2 oboes / 2 clarinets 2 bassoons / 2 horns / 2 trumpets percussion (bass drum, cymbals, glockenspiel) guitar / strings / pianoforte
AUTOGRAPH Library of the Conservatorio di Musica Giovan Battista Martini Bologna WORLD PREMIÈRE as Almaviva o sia L’inutile precauzione 20 FEBRUARY 1816 Teatro Argentino, Rome FIRST PERFORMANCE 3 APRIL 1876 Vienna Court Opera DURATION
3 H 15 M INCL. 1 INTERMISSION
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN / REMARKS ON COLOURS
WHEN ASKED WHAT THE WORDS ‘RED’, ‘BLUE’, BLACK’, ‘WHITE’ MEAN, WE CAN OF COURSE POINT TO OBJECTS THAT ARE THAT COLOUR – BUT THAT IS WHERE OUR ABILITY TO EXPLAIN THE MEANING OF THESE WORDS STOPS!