The Marriage of Figaro (play)
The play formed the basis for an opera with a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte and music by Mozart, also called "The Marriage of Figaro" (1786). In 1799, another opera based on the same play, "La pazza giornata, ovvero Il matrimonio di Figaro", was produced in Venice with libretto by Gaetano Rossi and music by Marcos Portugal.
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.