Droit du seigneur
In Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro", which premiered in 1786 with a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, the comic plot revolves around the successful efforts of the young bride and groom, Figaro and Susanna, to block the efforts of the unfaithful Count Almaviva to seduce Susanna. To achieve his aim, the frustrated Count threatens to reinstitute "droit du seigneur". It was based on a play by Pierre Beaumarchais.
Petteri Salomaa
In 1983 Salomaa made his professional opera debut at the Finnish National Opera (FNO) as Figaro in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro". In 1985 he made his debut at the Wexford Festival Opera as the King of Scotland in Handel's "Ariodante". He had several major critical successes in performances of Mozart operas at the Drottningholm Palace Theatre in Stockholm, including performances of Leporello in "Don Giovanni" (1986), Figaro (1987), Nardo in "La Finta Giardiniera" (1988). In 1988 he made his debut at the Dutch National Opera as Masetto in "Don Giovanni" and Papageno in "The Magic Flute". In 1989 he sang Figaro for his debuts at Theater Freiburg and the Michigan Opera Theater. He remained committed to Theater Freiburg through 1991 as a principal artist.