Articles related to "Beaumarchais"

Brief biography of French playwright Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, best known for writing "The Barber of Seville" and "The Marriage of Figaro," made into operas.

The Marriage of Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: plot summary, character list, and other Mozart opera information.

Today a Mozart opera seems hardly likely to cause public riots, but this perception of harmlessness wasn't always the case.

Here are a select few foreigners who helped establish the Unites States of America during the Revolutionary War. Some names are recognizable. Several more should be!

Louis was not an especially malicious king and in ordinary times he might have survived. Whereas, in the past, absolutism was accepted. Under Louis XVI it was intolerable

Traces the role of Mozart in the opera's history from 1781, the year he moved permanently to Vienna.

The most complete biography to date of this forgotten Prussian American Revolution Hero provides new insight about a questionable past and an unquestionable contribution!

Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia) a comic opera by Rossini. Barber of Seville plot summary, Barber or Seville reccommeded opera cds, Barber of Seville info.