<P> The Barber of Seville or the Useless Precaution ( French : Le Barbier de Séville ou la Précaution inutile ) is a French play by Pierre Beaumarchais , with original music by Antoine - Laurent Baudron . It was initially conceived as a comic opera , and was rejected as such in 1772 by the Comédie - Italienne . The play as it is now known was written in 1773 , but , due to legal and political problems of the author , it was not performed until February 23 , 1775 , at the Comédie - Française in the Tuileries . It is the first play in a trilogy of which the other constituents are The Marriage of Figaro and The Guilty Mother . </P>
<P> The Barber of Seville or the Useless Precaution ( French : Le Barbier de Séville ou la Précaution inutile ) is a French play by Pierre Beaumarchais , with original music by Antoine - Laurent Baudron . It was initially conceived as a comic opera , and was rejected as such in 1772 by the Comédie - Italienne . The play as it is now known was written in 1773 , but , due to legal and political problems of the author , it was not performed until February 23 , 1775 , at the Comédie - Française in the Tuileries . It is the first play in a trilogy of which the other constituents are The Marriage of Figaro and The Guilty Mother . </P>
who wrote the play the barber of seville
who wrote the play the barber of seville
Pierre Beaumarchais
Pierre Beaumarchais