Volume / SeriesWorks of Gioachino Rossini. 2 EditorBrauner, Patricia B. Instrumentation of the workSoloists, Choir, Orchestra Language(s) of workItalian Product formatEdition of selected works, Score, Urtext edition BindingLinen Pages / FormatLXXIV, 552 S. - 33,0 x 26,0 cm Bärenreiterâs publication of a new volume of the âWorks of Gioachino Rossiniâ, in collaboration with the Center for Italian Opera Studies at the University of Chicago, makes available an edition of the opera âIl barbiere di Sivigliaâ which meets modern demands. The editors have recently identified numerous carelessly edited places in the last critical edition by referring to additional sources. The greatest changes relate to the overture; for the new edition, no fewer than twenty different autograph manuscripts have been consulted.A detailed appendix containing alternative vocal parts, advice on ornamentation and compositions by Rossini significant in the performance history of the opera complete the volume.A 420-page Critical Commentary is published separately. With this, a critical edition is now available to interpreters, enabling them to perform Rossiniâs âBarber of Sevilleâ with the greatest possible confidence in the accuracy of the musical material. The performance material is available on hire, and a vocal score will be published at the end of 2009.Through 1829 Rossini was an extraordinarily prolific composer of operas, comic, serious, and semiserious, in Italian and French, as well as of a great deal of vocal and instrumental music. He composed sacred music, vocal treatises, cantatas. Then, for many different reasons, he wrote very little music for more than twentyfive years, if we except some songs and the â Stabat Materâ . Only after he left Italy definitively for Paris in 1855 did he find his voice again.Between 1857 and 1868 a fresh group of masterpieces issued from his pen, the so-called â Péchés de vieillesseâ (Sins of Old Age), including chamber music, songs, and the âPetite Messe Solennelleâ.Bärenreiter in cooperation with the Center for Italian Opera Studies at The University of Chicago will publish ten volumes in the series Works of Gioachino Rossini, in critical editions, during the period 2007â2011. These are all volumes that were not issued in the âEdizione critica delle opere di Gioachino Rossiniâ. Editorial Policy Criteri redazionali Abbreviations - Abbreviazioni Principal Sources - Fonti principali Preface Prefazione Facsimiles - Facsimili Orchestra - Organico Characters - Personaggi Libretto Il barbiere di Siviglia [Almaviva o sia L'inutile precauzione]: Sinfonia Act I - Atto I Act II - Atto II Appendix I - Appendice I: Vocal variants of Rossini - Varianti vocali di Rossini Appendix II - Appendice II: Recitativo ed Aria [Rosina] (N. 14bis) added by Rossini for / aggiunto da Rossini per Joséphine Fodor-Mainvielle (Venics, 1819) / (Venezia, 1819) Appendix III - Appendice III: Two documented revivals from 1816 - Due piprese documentate del 1816 Â