Spain Trip #49: Seville: Barber of Seville Balcony, & Bugs Bunny Video!

Balcony influenced Barber of Seville

In today's blog, you'll see the balcony that inspired the Barber of Seville - and as a BONUS, included is a Video of the classic Bugs Bunny cartoon of the opera!  We saw the balcony  during our trip to Seville, Spain on vacation in May. Enjoy!


BARBER OF SEVILLE- The Barber of Seville, a comic opera in two acts by Italian composer Gioachino Rossini was first performed under the title The Useless Precaution at the Teatro Argentina in Rome on February 20, 1816. With a plot based on Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais’s 1775 play Le Barbier de Séville. The barber of the title is Figaro, whose impressive entrance aria with its repeated proclamations of his own name—is one of the best-known of all opera arias.

Barber of Seville flyer

BALCONY OF INSPIRATION - The balcony in Seville, Spain, that tour guides say inspired the opera Barber of Seville by Rossini in 1816.
In the opera, the balcony is the setting for this scene: Young Count Almaviva is in love with Rosina, ward of the cantankerous Dr. Bartolo. With the help of some local musicians, he serenades her outside her balcony window (“Ecco ridente”), but she does not appear.

ABOUT THE BARBER OF SEVILLE: https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Barber-of-Seville-opera-by-Rossini

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YOU MAY REMEMBER the Barber of Seville from Bugs Bunny:


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