Bugs, dressed as a barber, steps out into the doorway of a staged barber shop set before a scenic town backdrop and starts singing as he speaks. The conductor, after a brief, confused glance at his watch, shrugs and starts the orchestra, making Elmer flinch and turn, wide-eyed, toward the audience. His back to the curtain, Elmer does not notice it rise, nor does he hear the resulting applause from the audience, when Bugs, using a carrot to do so, flicks the switch to raise the curtain. Bugs runs through the door and slams it shut to hide himself behind it as Elmer enters, and looking for Bugs, stalks unknowingly onstage behind the curtain. Bugs Bunny and a hunter chasing him, who is soon revealed to be Elmer Fudd, run down from the hills to the theater's open backstage door. Unnoticed from up on the hills in the back of the theatre, gunfire flashes are seen and shots are heard. The cartoon opens with people filing in to see The Barber of Seville in an amphitheatre. In 1994, Rabbit of Seville ranked number 12 in a list of " The 50 Greatest Cartoons" released in North America during the 20th century, a ranking compiled from votes cast by 1,000 artists, producers, directors, voice actors, and other professionals in the field of animation. The nonstop slapstick humor in the short is paced musically around the overture to Italian composer Gioachino Rossini's 1816 opera buffa The Barber of Seville. It was directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese, and features Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. Looney Tunes theatrical cartoon short released on December 16, 1950.
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