The Barber of Seville (1948 film)

{{short description|1948 film}}

{{About||the 1904 silent film|The Barber of Seville (1904 film)|other uses|The Barber of Seville (disambiguation)}}

{{Infobox film

| name = The Barber of Seville

| image =File:The Barber of Seville (1948 film).jpg

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| director =Jean Loubignac

| producer =Claude Dolbert

| based_on = The Barber of Seville by Pierre Beaumarchais

| writer =

| narrator =

| starring =

| music = Gioachino Rossini

| cinematography = René Colas

| editing =Fanchette Mazin

| studio =Codo Cinéma

| distributor = Les Réalisations d'Art Cinématographique

| released = {{Film date|1948|05|19|df=y}}

| runtime = 98 minutes

| country = France

| language = French

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The Barber of Seville (French: Le Barbier de Séville) is a 1948 French musical film directed by Jean Loubignac[http://cinema-francais.fr/les_films/films_l/films_loubignac_jean/le_barbier_de_seville.htm Le Cinéma Français site], retrieved 29 July 2013 It is a screen version of the 1816 opera by Rossini based on the 1775 play by Beaumarchais (in the translation by Castil-Blaze).Goble p.112 Filmed at the Billancourt Studios in Paris it uses the Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique production of the time.Turconi, Davide. Filmographie. L'avant-scène opéra – Cinéma et Opéra, no. 98 (May 1987): 123. It was filmed in 1947, released in May 1948, and lasts around 95 minutes. The film's sets were designed by the art director Louis Le Barbenchon.

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.Wolff, Stéphane. Un demi-siècle d'Opéra-Comique 1900–1950. André Bonne, Paris, 1953, p. 27.