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".
London Figaro
Among those who contributed to it were William Archer (writing as "Almaviva", drama critic), Ernest Bendall, Faustin Betbeder ("Faustin", caricaturist), Percy Betts ("Cherubino", musical critic), Ambrose Bierce ("Passing Showman", "Town Crier"), Edward Bradley ("Cuthbert Bede"), Aglen Dowty ("Young and Happy Husband", "OPQ Philander Smiff"), John Baker Hopkins, Frank Marshall, Edwin Milliken, Clement Scott ("Almaviva", drama critic), and Edward Blanchard (drama critic). Mortimer was a chess master and so the Figaro had a chess column, which from 1872 until 1876 was contributed by Johann Löwenthal and from 1876 to 1882 by Wilhelm Steinitz.