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".
Martino Carbonaro
Martino Carbonaro, o sia Gli sposi fuggitivi was the last of fifty-one operas written by Italian composer Giuseppe Gazzaniga. The farsa has an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Foppa and premiered at the Teatro San Moisè in Venice, Italy in 1801.