The Marriage of Figaro
The Marriage of Figaro (, ), K. 492, is an opera buffa (comic opera) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1 May 1786. The opera's libretto is based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, "La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro" ("The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro"), which was first performed in 1784. It tells how the servants Figaro and Susanna succeed in getting married, foiling the efforts of their philandering employer Count Almaviva to seduce Susanna and teaching him a lesson in fidelity.
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".