Pierre Beaumarchais
In 1786, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed an opera, "Le Nozze di Figaro", based on "The Marriage of Figaro", with a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte based on the play. Several composers including Paisiello in 1782 wrote operas based on "The Barber of Seville". Rossini's 1816 version is his most successful work and still often performed. In 1966, Darius Milhaud composed an opera, "La mère coupable", based on "The Guilty Mother".
Michel Trempont
Trempont attained an international career with performances at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, where he made his debut in 1966, and sang (French versions) Figaro in the Mozart opera and in Rossini's; Marcello, Sharpless, Gaillardin (Gabriel von Eisenstein) in "Die Fledermaus (La Chauve-Souris)", Rimbaud in "le Comte Ory", Zurga in "les Pêcheurs de perles" and le Marquis de Clainvillela in Sauguet's "La Gageure imprévue". He appeared at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, the Royal Opera House London, La Scala, Milan, La Fenice, Venice, Teatro San Carlo in Naples and San Francisco Opera. His repertoire has included Figaro (in both Mozart's "Le nozze di Figaro" and Rossini's "Il barbiere di Siviglia"), Guglielmo ("Cosi fan tutte"), Rimbaud ("Le Comte Ory"), Sulpice ("La fille du régiment"), Fieramosca ("Benvenuto Cellini"), Taddeo ("L'Italiana in Algeri"), Sancho ("Don Quichotte"), and the king in Prokofiev's "L'Amour des trois oranges".