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DESCRIPTION:May 10\, 2026\nThe Barber of Seville in concert in Seville! How
  meta! We’re not talking about Gioacchino Rossini’s razzle-dazzle vers
 ion of 1816 (which believe it or not was not the last)\, but of the earlie
 r hit by the gentler and more genial Giovanni Paisiello (which was not the
  first). Rossini’s opening night was famously sabotaged by Paisiello’s
  partisans\, but their victory was of brief duration. The only snippet of 
 Paisiello’s score living audiences might have encountered is the heart-m
 elting cavatina by Count Almaviva\, the dreamboat who courts the shut-in R
 osina incognito—and that’s only if they’ve paid close attention to S
 tanley Kubrick’s slow but ravishing costume drama Barry Lyndon\, adapted
  from William (Vanity Fair) Makepeace Thackeray’s little-remembered nove
 l. Kubrick famously shot the film with three ultrafast\, specially adapted
  Zeiss Planar 0.7/50mm. lenses (originally developed for NASA)\, which all
 owed him to capture action by candlelight. Nowhere was the effect more pai
 nterly than in the climactic gambling-room sequence\, which finds the titu
 lar veteran and ne’er-do-well (Ryan O’Neill) losing his shirt and what
 ever else is left of the position and fortune for which he married his wel
 l-born wife (Marisa Berenson). It’s in the gambling house that you hear 
 the Paisiello\, delectably accompanied by bowed strings and mandolin. We c
 an’t wait to hear the song in context.
LOCATION:Teatro de la Maestranza\, P.º de Cristóbal Colón\, 22\, Casco A
 ntiguo\, 41001 Sevilla\, Spain\, Spain
SUMMARY:Giovanni Paisiello's The Barber of Seville\, in concert
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