 Petrosellini's libretto puts a greater emphasis on the love story and less on the comic qualities.Several musical adaptations of "Il barbiere di Siviglia" predated the version by Paisiello, but Paisiello's comic opera was the first to achieve widespread success.It was subsequently staged in several cities in the years immediately following its premiere, including Vienna, where "Il barbiere" played at five venues from 1783 until 1804, both in Italian and German, and received nearly 100 performances, and Naples (1783); Warsaw, Prague, Versailles (1784); Cassel, Bratislava, Mannheim (1785); Liège, Cologne (1786); Madrid and Barcelona (1787); for the 1787 production in Naples at the Teatro dei Fiorentini, the opera was reduced to three acts and Pasiello wrote three new numbers