Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
1732 - 1799
Titles on this disk:
- author: The Barber of Seville, or the Useless Precaution
- author: The Marriage of Figaro (or the Follies of a Day)
- author: Mozart’s Opera Marriage of Figaro, containing the Italian text, with an English translation, and the Music of all of the Principal Airs
About this person:
Beaumarchais was a watchmaker and a court musician before he turned to writing plays. He is best known for having dared to publish Voltaire and two anti-aristocratic plays of his own.