Description
Original book ca. 1880 with musical scores adapted for piano from the operas “The Barber of Seville” by Gioachino Rossini, and “La straniera” by Vincenzo Bellini.
The score of “El barbero de Sevilla” was printed in Madrid by Nicolás Toledo in his collection “Nueva Biblioteca Musical Económica”. The score “La straniera” was printed in Barcelona by the Museo Lírico. Both were bound at the end of the 19th century in a single volume.
A very special book for any piano student, apprentice or teacher.
Hardcover bound volume with signs of use, interior with paper in very good condition despite the almost 150 years that have elapsed, easy-to-read pages. Format 19 x 27.3 cm. 246 pages, of which 140 correspond to “El barbero de Sevilla” and 98 to “La straniera”. Tinted edges, on the spine in gold only “The Barber of Seville” and ornaments.
The Barber of Seville (original title in Italian, “Il barbiere di Siviglia”) is a comic opera in two acts with music by Gioachino Rossini and an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini, based on the comedy of the same name (1775) by Pierre- Augustin de Beaumarchais. The premiere, under the title “Almaviva”, or “The Useless Precaution”, took place in February 1816, at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
The plot recounts the adventures of a couple in love made up of the Count of Almaviva and the young orphan Rosina. Bartolo, the girl’s tutor, also wants her despite her age difference. To avoid this, the couple enlists the help of the barber Figaro, who through entanglements deceives Bartolo and manages to unite the lovers in marriage. Three arias stand out in the opera: “Largo al factotum”, “Una voce poco fa” and “La calunnia”.
Rossini’s The Barber has proven to be one of the great masterpieces of comedy within music, and has been described as the opera buffa of all opera buffas. Even after two hundred years, his popularity on the modern opera scene attests to his greatness.
The Stranger (original title in Italian, “La straniera”) is an opera in two acts composed by Vincenzo Bellini, to a libretto by Felice Romani, based on the novel L’étrangère (1825) by Charles-Victor Prévot, Viscount d’ Arlincourt. It was composed in the autumn of 1828 and premiered in February 1829 in Milan.
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