IL Barbiere Di Siviglia (the Barber of Seville): A Comic Opera in Two Acts (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

Excerpt from IL Barbiere Di Siviglia (the Barber of Seville): A Comic Opera in Two Acts

The turmoil began again with the next duet and the finale was mere dumb show. When the curtain fell Rossini faced the mob, shrugged his shoulders and clapped his hands to show his contempt. Only the musicians and singers heard the second act, the din being incessant from beginning to end. Rossini remained imperturbable, and when giorgi-righetti, Garcia and Zamboni has tened to his lodgings to ofi'er their condolences as soon as they could don street attire, they found him asleep. The next day he wrote the cavatina Ecco rza'ente in aelo to take the place of Garcia's unlucky Spanish song, borrowing the air from his own Aureliano composed two years before, into which it had been incorporated from Ciro, a still earlier work. When night came he feigned illness so as to escape the task of conducting. By that time his enemies had worn themselves out. The music was heard amid loud plaudits and in a week the opera had scored a stupendous success.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.