Entries from SFist tagged with 'claudiamahnke'
June 20, 2006
The Marriage of Figaro is the sequel to The Barber of Seville. Not in the operatic world, where Mozart wrote the Marriage before Rossini did the Barber, but in the Beaumarchais plays upon which the two librettos were based. The two operas thus share the lead character, Figaro, a cunning servant quick on his feet and with his wits. Now, we all know where we are going with this: the last Figaro on the SF......
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