Rossini - Overture from the “Barber of Seville“

Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792 - 1868) “The Barber of Seville“, or “The Useless Precaution“ (“Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L’inutile precauzione“) is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto (based on Beaumarchais’s comedy Le Barbier de Séville) by Cesare Sterbini. The overture, first written for “Aureliano in Palmira“, is a famous example of Rossini’s characteristic Italian style.