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.
Giuseppe Taddei
Taddei left many recordings, notably as Figaro in "The Marriage of Figaro" and Leporello in "Don Giovanni" in the Carlo Maria Giulini renditions, as Macbeth, opposite Birgit Nilsson, in "Macbeth", conducted by Thomas Schippers, and as Scarpia in "Tosca" and as Falstaff in "Falstaff", both conducted by Herbert von Karajan.