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".
Petteri Salomaa
In 1983 Salomaa made his professional opera debut at the Finnish National Opera (FNO) as Figaro in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro". In 1985 he made his debut at the Wexford Festival Opera as the King of Scotland in Handel's "Ariodante". He had several major critical successes in performances of Mozart operas at the Drottningholm Palace Theatre in Stockholm, including performances of Leporello in "Don Giovanni" (1986), Figaro (1987), Nardo in "La Finta Giardiniera" (1988). In 1988 he made his debut at the Dutch National Opera as Masetto in "Don Giovanni" and Papageno in "The Magic Flute". In 1989 he sang Figaro for his debuts at Theater Freiburg and the Michigan Opera Theater. He remained committed to Theater Freiburg through 1991 as a principal artist.