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Figaro Trilogy Series

This dramatic trilogy follows the adventures of a cunning barber whose schemes and wit manipulate both the aristocracy and common folk. Set against a historical backdrop, the stories are brimming with humor, romance, and social satire. These works are renowned not only as stage plays but primarily as the foundation for famous operatic adaptations.

The Barber of Seville and the Marriage of Figaro
The Figaro Trilogy
Classiques Larousse - 1: Le Mariage de Figaro
Le Barbier De Seville

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  1. Le Barbier De Seville

    • 232 pages
    • 9 hours of reading

    Ah ! le triste sire ! Gros, court, gris, pommelé, rusé, blasé qui guette et furète, gronde et geint tout à la fois. Il est encore avare, brutal, amoureux et jaloux... Et la belle Rosine, sa jeune pupille, est l'infortunée victime de cette odieuse flamme... Mais le ciel protège, dit-on, ceux qui s'aiment. Et Figaro, le gai, l'impertinent, l'irremplaçable Figaro a tôt fait de voler au secours de son maître le comte Almaviva. La belle est cloîtrée ? Le vieillard méfiant ? Qu'à cela ne tienne ! Et le voilà qui court, trompe et invente l'habile stratagème pour sauver les amants. Un enlèvement ? À la bonne heure ! La difficulté de réussir ne fait qu'ajouter à la nécessité d'entreprendre, s'exclame le rusé.

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    A French courtier, secret agent, libertine and adventurer, Beaumarchais (1732-99) was also author of two sparkling plays about the scoundrelly valet Figaro triumphant successes that were used as the basis of operas by Mozart and Rossini. A highly engaging comedy of intrigue, The Barber of Seville portrays the resourceful Figaro foiling a jealous old man's attempts to keep his beautiful ward from her lover. And The Marriage of Figaro condemned by Louis XVI for its daring satire of nobility and privilege depicts a master and servant set in opposition by their desire for the same woman. With characteristic lightness of touch, Beaumarchais created an audacious farce of disguise and mistaken identity that balances wit, frivolity and seriousness in equal measure

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