The Barber of Seville

Barber of Seville, The (Le Barbier de Séville: ou La Précaution inutile)

    Alternative Title: The Useless/Futile Precaution

    Author: Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

    First Performance: 1775, Paris

    Published: 1775

    First English Translation: 1776

    Genre: Com. in 4 acts; French prose

    Setting: Seville, Renaissance period

    Cast: 8m, 1f, extras

Figaro, former valet of Count Almaviva, finds that he can be of service to his sometime master. Almaviva has fallen in love with Rosine, a beautiful young heiress, who is kept locked up by her old guardian Dr Bartholo, who intends to marry her himself the next day. Now working as a barber, Figaro easily gains access to the household and introduces Almaviva disguised as a drunken soldier needing quarters. When this fails,...

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