Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville

Gioachino Rossini''s The Barber of Seville surveys the opera''s fascinating performance history, mapping out the myriad changes that have affected the work since its premiere, exploring many of the personalities responsible for those alterations, and taking into account the range of reactions that these changes have prompted in spectators and critics from the nineteenth century to the present. Ope...