Le Barbier de Séville (film)
Le Barbier de Séville is a French film directed by Jean Loubignac released in 1948.[1] It is a screen version of the 1816 opera by Rossini based on the play by Beaumarchais (in the translation by Castil-Blaze). Filmed at the Boulogne-Billancourt studio it uses the Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique production of the time.[2]
It was filmed in 1947, released in May 1948, and lasts around 95 minutes.[1]
The opera had been seen at all the principal lyric theatres in Paris; at the Salle Favart it had been performed over 500 times by the time of the film, which features several popular singers from the company.[3]
The film director is Jean Loubignac, director of photography René Colas, sets by Louis Le Barbenchon, and producer Claude Dolbert, for Codo-Cinéma.
Cast
- Roger Bussonnet as Figaro
- Raymond Amade as Almaviva
- Lucienne Jourfier as Rosine
- Louis Musy as Don Bartolo
- Roger Bourdin as Don Bazile
- Renée Gilly as Marceline
- Jean Vieuille as Pédrille
- Gustave Wion as L'Officier
- Serge Rallier as L'Alcade
- Jean Retty as Le Notaire
The chorus and orchestra of the Opéra-Comique are conducted by André Cluytens.
References
- 1 2 Le Cinéma Français site, retrieved 29 July 2013
- ↑ Turconi, Davide. Filmographie. L'avant-scène opéra – Cinéma et Opéra, no. 98 (May 1987): 123.
- ↑ Wolff, Stéphane. Un demi-siècle d'Opéra-Comique 1900–1950. André Bonne, Paris, 1953, p. 27.
External links
- Le Barbier de Séville (1948) at the Internet Movie Database
- Le Barbier de Séville at Ciné-Ressources