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
Otello (Rossini) Otello (Rossini) Otello () is an opera in three acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Berio di Salsa. The work is based on a French adaptation of the story, not Shakespeare's play "Othello" as neither Rossini nor his librettist knew the English drama. The opera deviates heavily from Shakespeare's version not only in that it takes place in Venice and not on Cyprus, but also in that the whole dramatic conflict develops in a different manner. The role of Iago is reduced to some degree, and it is much less diabolical than in the original