Le Barbier de Séville

aka Le Barbier de Séville ou la Précaution inutile

The Barber of Seville

Author

Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais

Language

French

Year

1775

Country

France

Genre

Drama / Theatre / Plays

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The Barber of Seville or the Useless Precaution is a French play by Pierre Beaumarchais, with original music by Antoine-Laurent Baudron. It was initially conceived as an opéra comique, and was rejected as such in 1772 by the Comédie-Italienne. The play as it is now known was written in 1773, but, due to legal and political problems of the author, it was not performed until February 23, 1775, at the Comédie-Française in the Tuileries. It is the first play in a trilogy of which the other constituents are The Marriage of Figaro and The Guilty Mother.