Paisiello
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Did I know that on the opening night of Rossini's Barber of Seville, fans of a previous version by Paisiello turned up in numbers to disrupt proceedings?
From The Guardian ● May 25, 2010
Added a visiting London Times critic: "When Paisiello wrote this opera, he must have dreamed about her."
From Time Magazine Archive
Now he is doing the same thing for the chamber operas of such composers as Paisiello, Cimarosa and Rossini.
From Time Magazine Archive
Performances, with a wigged orchestra in the pit, include The Barber of Seville, written by Giovanni Paisiello more than 30 years before Rossini turned his hand to the same theme.
From Time Magazine Archive
The school of Paisiello, notwithstanding its many merits, had several grievous weaknesses, of which the most prominent were uniformity of melodic type, nerveless and conventional orchestration, and intolerable prolixity.
From The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. by J. A. Fuller-Maitland
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