The Barber (Seinfeld) forcibly shaves his entire head. Throughout this episode, the familiar "Seinfeld" slap-bass incidental music is replaced with selections from Gioachino Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" overture. The Barber (Seinfeld) "The Barber" is the 72nd episode of the NBC sitcom "Seinfeld". It is the eighth episode of the fifth season, and first aired on November 11, 1993. At a job interview, George's interviewer, Mr. Tuttle, is cut off mid-sentence by an important telephone call, and sends George away without saying whether he has been hired or not. Mr. Tuttle told George that one of the things that make George such an
The Barber of Seville play, "Le Barbier de Séville", had a similar story: poorly received at first, only to become a favorite within a week. The opera was first performed in England on 10 March 1818 at the King's Theatre in London in Italian, soon followed on 13 October at the Covent Garden Theatre by an English version translated by John Fawcett and Daniel Terry. It was first performed in America on 3 May 1819 in English (probably the Covent Garden version) at the Park Theatre in New York. It was given in French at the Théâtre d'Orléans in New Orleans on 4 March