Bärenreiter’s publication of a new volume of the “Works of Gioachino Rossini”, in collaboration with the Center for Italian Opera Studies at the University of Chicago, makes available an edition of the opera “Il barbiere di Siviglia” which meets modern demands. The editors have recently identified numerous carelessly edited places in the last critical edition by referring to additional sources. The greatest changes relate to the overture; for the new edition, no fewer than twenty different autog...