The Marriage of Figaro (play)
The play formed the basis for an opera with a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte and music by Mozart, also called "The Marriage of Figaro" (1786). In 1799, another opera based on the same play, "La pazza giornata, ovvero Il matrimonio di Figaro", was produced in Venice with libretto by Gaetano Rossi and music by Marcos Portugal.
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".