| Composer: |
Gioachino Rossini |
| Music title: |
Il barbiere di Siviglia (1816) |
| Librettist: |
Cesare Sterbini |
| Work definition: |
Commedia in two acts |
| Title notes: |
Also known as 'The Barber of Seville' |
| After: |
After the play 'Le barbier de Seville' by Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais and the libretto often attributed to Giuseppe Petrosellini for the opera 'Il barbiere di Siviglia' by Giovanni Paisiello (1782, St Petersburg) |
| Language: |
Italian |
| World premiere: |
20 February 1816, Teatro Argentina, Rome |
| ROH premiere: |
13 October 1818, Henry Harris and John Philip Kemble Company |
| ROH company premiere: |
16 May 1960, Covent Garden Opera Company, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London |