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【Classical Music and Nature 古典音樂小站】Gioachino Antonio Rossini: The Barber of Seville - Overture. This beautiful piece was played by Davis High School Symphony Orchestra. It has Creative Commons license and is provided through www.musopen.org.

In the early 19th century, opera overtures bore little musical relationship to the operas themselves. The overture served as a musical signal for the audience that the evening’s entertainment was about to begin; its musical content might suggest some of the emotional range of the opera, but did not include any actual themes. Rossini, like Mozart before him, usually left the overture until the last minute. In the case of The Barber of Seville, Rossini ran out of time before the opera’s scheduled premiere, so he borrowed the overture from his opera seria, Aureliano in Palmira, which had premiered two years earlier. In 1815, a year before the premiere of The Barber of Seville, Rossini once again recycled it, this time as the overture to his historical opera Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra (Elizabeth, Queen of England). As James Keller points out, “the fact that essentially the same piece could serve to introduce an opera seria, an opera buffa, and a historical tragic opera speaks to the adaptability of Rossini’s basic style to a variety of dramatic situations.”

The video was taken by Christian Schlegel in Kiental, Switzerland and edited by Wenjing Ma.

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