bookshelves: winter-20102011, play-dramatisation, published-1778 Recommended for: Sunday R3 listeners Read on December 27, 2010 ** spoiler alert ** blurb - As a prelude to The Genius of Mozart, Radio 3's major new season in the new year, a rare chance to hear Beaumarchais' original play. Bristli...
'Le Mariage De Figaro' is the second part of a theatrical trilogy by 18th century playwright Beaumarchais, but can also be read as a stand-alone work as one can just jump in and start reading without encountering any problems. The central plot revolves around Figaro, a servant of Comte Almaviva, who...
blurb - As a prelude to The Genius of Mozart, Radio 3's major new season in the new year, a rare chance to hear Beaumarchais' original play. Bristling with social and political conflict, behind the comic intrigues of da Ponte's libretto lies a drama that was considered too dangerous to be allowed to...