Google has dished out a doodle to
celebrate the day which comes only after a long wait of three years. In its
first of a kind two-in-one doodle, Google also pays homage to Italian composer
Gioachino Rossini on his 220th birth anniversary. Inspired by Rossini's famous
1816 comic opera The Barber of Seville. When it premiered in 1860, it was seen
as a failure, it was only after the second performance that the play started
acquiring the cult status, which has made it one of the most popular Italian
operas.
The frogs in the scenes tell a story
- the leaping frog, to celebrate the leap year, is a soprano, another
frog is playing the piano. The other two frogs are Figaro, the barber frog who
is shaving a frog who is Count Almaviva.
This is Google's third doodle to
welcome the leap year, the previous two doodles were created in 2004 and 2008.
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