In THE GHOSTS of VERSAILLES (partially based on Beaumarchais' third play LA MERE COUPABLE) Figaro dreams ...
And a few helpful links:
The Ghosts of Versailles
How to Stage a Revolution
Pierre Beaumarchais
La mere coupable
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
ROSSINIANA #23
Of course Figaro, the footloose barber, goes on to further life roles ... valet to the Count Almaviva (who has in the mean time married ... and been unfaithful to ... Rosina ...). In the second of Beaumarchais' plays (and Mozart's opera) his suspicions towards his boss and his potentially amorous connections to his bride-to-be Susanna brings out the angry revolutionary in him.
In THE GHOSTS of VERSAILLES (partially based on Beaumarchais' third play LA MERE COUPABLE) Figaro dreams ...
And a few helpful links:
The Ghosts of Versailles
How to Stage a Revolution
Pierre Beaumarchais
La mere coupable
In THE GHOSTS of VERSAILLES (partially based on Beaumarchais' third play LA MERE COUPABLE) Figaro dreams ...
And a few helpful links:
The Ghosts of Versailles
How to Stage a Revolution
Pierre Beaumarchais
La mere coupable
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