Lovely production but lacks sparkle
You might detect the influence of Mozart on Rossini in The Barber of Seville. Most obviously, it shares several of the same characters who appear in The Marriage of Figaro, both works originally written by Beaumarchais, but the similarity is evident in the use of recitative, the ensemble finales, the type of humour in the farcical situations, but principally, it's the manner in which Rossini approaches the material with a similar sense of dazzling inventiveness and virtuoso touches that would come to define bel canto. It was Paisiello however, more than Mozart or Beaumarchais, who would have been foremost in the mind of the composer, since Paisiello's Il Barbiere di Siviglia had already proven to be a success and was still hugely popular at the time that Rossini decided to tackle the subject, believing that he could do much more with the work than the old-fashioned, outdated, conservative style of the original version. When asked if Rossini had indeed written the whole of The Barber...
Very good indeed.
Excellent.
I would like the sound in PCM 24 bits 96 khz, but all in all genial.
It's by far the best performance I've ever seen.
Very good.
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