Do both Simon Boccanegra and Le roi d'Ys have the same number of acts?
Simon Boccanegra Simon Boccanegra (] ) is an opera with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play "Simón Bocanegra" (1843) by Antonio García Gutiérrez, whose play "El trovador" had been the basis for Verdi's 1853 opera, "Il trovatore".
The Barber of Seville (play) 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".