The Barber of Seville (1904 film) prepared a special film score for "The Barber of Seville", adapted from the most well-known arias from the Rossini opera. Like at least 4% of Méliès's entire output (including such films as "A Trip to the Moon", "The Impossible Voyage", "The Kingdom of the Fairies", and "The Rajah's Dream"), some prints were individually hand-colored and sold at a higher price. The film is currently presumed lost. The Barber of Seville (1904 film) The Barber of Seville (), also released as The Barber of Sevilla, or the Useless Precaution, was a 1904 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès, based on
Gioachino Rossini Rossi of Voltaire's tragedy "Tancrède". Traces of Ferdinando Paer and Giovanni Paisiello were undeniably present in fragments of the music. But any critical feeling on the part of the public was drowned by appreciation of such melodies as ""Di tanti palpiti... Mi rivedrai, ti rivedrò"", which became so popular that the Italians would sing it in crowds at the law courts until called upon by the judge to desist. By the age of 21, Rossini had established himself as the idol of the Italian opera public. He continued to write operas for Venice and Milan during the next few years,