Music Gioachino Rossini

Opera buffa in two acts
Libretto by Cesare Sterbini
after  Barber of  Seville by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

First performed
Teatro Argentina in Rome, 20 February 1816

Music Georges Bizet

Opera in four acts
Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
based on a novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée

First performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, on 3 March 1875

Music Leonard Bernstein

A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players, and Dancers
Text by Bernstein and additional text and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz

First performed, John F. Kennedy Center for the performing arts, Washington D.C., September 8 1971