#beaumarchais

[cy-lindric]

Le subterfuge de Chérubin

[ssmashingtime]

Hi, can you draw Beaumarchais? Very 18th century 🌝

Here you go!! Thank you for the request!

[1794robespierre]

Screenshot from Wikipedia:

P1:Beaumarchais' The Marriage of Figaro is the second work in his "Figaro Trilogy," written in the 1770s. It premiered on April 27, 1784, at the Comédie-Française in Paris, at a time when France was on the eve of the Great Revolution. This comedy played a significant role in exposing and satirizing the feudal aristocracy. Although the play was well received throughout Europe, Emperor Joseph II of the Holy Roman Empire forbade its performance in Vienna. Mozart's librettist, Lorenzo Da Ponte, who was the imperial court poet at the time, fought for it repeatedly. In the end, the Emperor gave his verbal approval for an adapted version to be performed the following year, partly to ease some of the domestic unrest. Mozart spent two years composing the music. In writing this opera, he preserved the basic ideas of the original work—the stark contrast between the foolish, dissolute noble lord and the clever servant who triumphs over him serves as the foundation for the entire plot and the character development in the vocal music.

P2:On May 1, 1786, The Marriage of Figaro premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna, conducted by Mozart himself. Due to the sensitive subject matter of the play, the nobility in the country was greatly outraged during its run. Although the Emperor personally admired the work, he was pressured into repeatedly asking Mozart to cut or revise the content. A German-language version premiered in Berlin in 1790.

I remember a documentary saying that Beaumarchais' The Marriage of Figaro directly helped trigger the outbreak of the French Revolution (though that's a bit of an exaggeration lol). So based on what we saw in P2, in a way, Citoyen Mozart also played a role in pushing the French Revolution forward — he made his contribution to the revolution!🥺🥺🥺

[philoursmars]

Au Louvre-Lens, en plus de l'expo sur les Orientalismes, il y avait aussi une mini-expo consacrée à la Comédie-Française.

Henri-Pierre Danloux - "Thénard aîné dans le rôle de Figaro" (dans "Le Mariage de Figaro", de Beaumarchais) - 1808

Pierre-Auguste Renoir - "Jeanne Samary" - 1877

Jean Cherfils - "Arnould Poisson dans le rôle de Crispin" (dans "Crispin, rival de son maître", d' Alain-René Lesage) - 1730 (-je trouve ce tableau étonnamment "actuel")

Philippe Parrot - "Sarah Bernhardt dans le rôle de Berthe" (dans "Le Sphinx" d'Octave Feuillet) - 1875

[francepittoresque]

IL Y A 227 ANS | Mort de Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais ➽ http://bit.ly/Pierre-Caron-Beaumarchais Le 18 mai 1799 disparaît celui qui transforma chaque revers en coup de théâtre. Horloger prodige devenu courtisan, harpiste, dramaturge et négociant d’audace, Beaumarchais, célèbre pour son « Figaro », fit de sa vie une comédie à grand orchestre : procès éclatants, missions secrètes, cargaisons pour l’Amérique, combat victorieux pour imposer la reconnaissance du droit d'auteur

[gardenofadonis]

the thing about Cherubino and Barbarina is that they really match each other’s freak

[aretheybisexual]

Are they bi based on vibes?

Figaro from plays by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (opera musical)

Yeah, he's bi!

I could see it

No, but he is queer

Nah, he is straight

Gimmie the results

Voting ended onApr 21

Submitter states - Plays by Beaumarchais (The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, The Guilty Mother), the better known opera adaptations by Mozart and Rossini (Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, Rossini's The Barber of Seville).

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[pineapplesandbananas]

while there are many wonderful parts of Jonathan Miller's production of Nozze at the Met I think the best part is little Rosina Jr. who periodically pops in and sits onstage for a bit.

the best part though, is that she gets brought onstage for Ricevete, o padroncina and stays for the rest of the third act. and yes, this does mean she watches the passive agressive argument going on between her parents, as well as Barbarina's, "remember what you said when you kissed me?"

but you know, I think watching your parents fight adds character