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".
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.