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.
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".