- Docente: Saverio Lamacchia
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-ART/07
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Music and Theatre Studies (cod. 6737)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Music and Theatre Studies (cod. 8837)
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from Apr 08, 2026 to May 21, 2026
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the student learns the outlines and gains important insights into the history and historiography of music of the nineteenth century; he/she also acquires the methodological tools to orient him/herself in the subject.
Course contents
Il barbiere di Siviglia by Cesare Sterbini and Gioachino Rossini. Analysis of the opera and its place in the historiography of Italian opera.
Readings/Bibliography
S. Lamacchia, Il vero Figaro o sia il falso factotum. Riesame del "Barbiere" di Rossini, Torino, EDT- De Sono, 2008.
Il barbiere di Siviglia, critical edition, edited by P. Brauner, Bärenreiter, Kassel, 2008-2010 (TP 411)
Students with learning disorders and\or temporary or permanent disabilities: please, contact the office responsible (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en/for-students) as soon as possible so that they can propose acceptable adjustments. The request for adaptation must be submitted in advance (15 days before the exam date) to the lecturer, who will assess the appropriateness of the adjustments, taking into account the teaching objectives.
Teaching methods
Lectures, readings and comments on Il barbiere di Siviglia, discussions with the class-group.
Assessment methods
The exam consists of an oral examination.
It will be assessed as excellent the performance of those students achieving an organic vision of the course contents, the use of a proper specific language, the originality of the reflection as well as the familiarity with the tools for analysing Il barbiere di Siviglia. It will be assessed as discrete the performance of those students showing mostly mechanical or mnemonic knowledge of the subject, not articulated synthesis and analysis capabilities, a correct but not always appropriate language, as well as a scholastic study of the strategies for analysing Il barbiere di Siviglia. It will be assessed as barely sufficient the performance of those students showing learning gaps, inappropriate language, lack of knowledge of the strategies for analysing Il barbiere di Siviglia. It will be assessed as insufficient the performance of those students showing learning gaps, inappropriate language, no orientation within the recommended bibliography and inability to analyse Il barbiere di Siviglia.
Teaching tools
Power point, video projections
Office hours
See the website of Saverio Lamacchia