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Figaro
Figaro may refer to: Literature * Figaro, the central character in: ** ''The Barber of Seville'' (play), a 1775 play by Pierre Beaumarchais *** ''The Barber of Seville'' (Paisiello), a 1782 opera by Paisiello based on the play *** ''The Barber of Seville'', an 1816 opera by Rossini based on the play *** '' Figaro qua, Figaro là'', 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia ** ''The Guilty Mother'', a 1792 play by Beaumarchais *** ''La mère coupable'', a 1966 opera by Milhaud based on the play ** ''The Marriage of Figaro'' (play), a 1784 play by Beaumarchais *** ''The Marriage of Figaro'', a 1786 opera by Mozart based on the play * Figaro, a comic strip character in '' The Topper'' Publications * ''Le Figaro'', the oldest extant newspaper in France * ''Figaro in London'', an early Victorian comic magazine published in England * ''London Figaro'', a late Victorian satirical magazine published in England * '' Queensland Figaro'', a weekly newspaper publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Marriage Of Figaro
''The Marriage of Figaro'' ( it, Le nozze di Figaro, links=no, ), K. 492, is a ''commedia per musica'' (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1 May 1786. The opera's libretto is based on the 1784 stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, '' La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro'' ("The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro"). It tells how the servants Figaro and Susanna succeed in getting married, foiling the efforts of their philandering employer Count Almaviva to seduce Susanna and teaching him a lesson in fidelity. Considered one of the greatest operas ever written, it is a cornerstone of the repertoire and appears consistently among the top ten in the Operabase list of most frequently performed operas. In 2017, BBC News Magazine asked 172 opera singers to vote for the best operas ever written. ''The Marriage of Figaro'' came in first out of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Marriage Of Figaro (play)
''The Marriage of Figaro'' (french: link=no, La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro ("The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro")) is a comedy in five acts, written in 1778 by Pierre Beaumarchais. This play is the second in the Figaro trilogy, preceded by ''The Barber of Seville'' and followed by '' The Guilty Mother''. In the first play, ''The Barber'', the story begins with a simple love triangle in which a Spanish count has fallen in love with a girl called Rosine. He disguises himself to ensure that she will love him back for his character, not his wealth. But this is all foiled when Rosine's guardian, Doctor Bartholo, who wants her hand in marriage, confines her to the house. The Count runs into an ex-servant of his (now a barber), Figaro, and pressures him into setting up a meeting between the Count and Rosine. He succeeds and the lovers are married to end the first part of the trilogy. ''The Marriage'' was written as a sequel to ''The Barber''. In his preface to the pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Figaro
''Le Figaro'' () is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It is headquartered on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. The oldest national newspaper in France, ''Le Figaro'' is one of three French newspapers of record, along with ''Le Monde'' and ''Libération''. It was named after Figaro, a character in a play by polymath Beaumarchais (1732–1799); one of his lines became the paper's motto: "''Sans la liberté de blâmer, il n'est point d'éloge flatteur''" ("Without the freedom to criticise, there is no flattering praise"). With a centre-right editorial line, it is the largest national newspaper in France, ahead of ''Le Parisien'' and ''Le Monde''. In 2019, the paper had an average circulation of 321,116 copies per issue. The paper is published in Berliner format. Since 2012 its editor (''directeur de la rédaction'') has been Alexis Brézet. The newspaper has been owned by Dassault Group since 2004. Other Groupe Figaro publications include ''Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Figaro Coffee Company
Figaro Coffee Systems Inc. (Figaro Coffee) is a Philippine coffee company and coffeehouse chain that works on the franchise model. , it had 63 outlets in Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Papua New Guinea. As of 2020, Figaro Coffee had a total of 90 outlets worldwide. History Figaro Coffee was established in November 1993 by seven college friends, including Pacita "Chit" Juan and Reena Francisco, as a small kiosk in Glorietta mall in Makati selling fresh ground coffee and tea paraphernalia. Juan and Francisco were classmates at the University of the Philippines, where Juan had studied Hotel and Restaurant Administration. Juan, then involved in her family business, decided to start a coffee shop, something that she had earlier set out with while still in college. The first outlet was called "the F store" and employed one managing partner and two employees. The shop had coffee and tea paraphernalia including fresh ground coffee beans. After a few trying initial months, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nissan Figaro
The Nissan Figaro is a front-engine, front-wheel drive, two-door, 2+2, fixed-profile convertible manufactured by Nissan for model year 1991, and marketed in Japan at Nissan Cherry Stores. A total of 20,073 Figaros were produced by Nissan in the convertible's single year of series production—all with right hand drive. There are a few examples of left hand drive conversions for those countries that have right hand traffic. As a fixed-profile convertible, the upper side elements of the Figaro's bodywork remain fixed, while its fabric soft top retracts in conjunction with a solid panel with a defroster-equipped glass rear window—as seen in other fixed-profile convertibles, including the original 1957 Fiat 500 and the Citroën 2CV. With its design variously attributed to Naoki Sakai and/or Shoji Takahashi, the design recalls that of the Gutbrod Superior, a German fixed-profile convertible marketed from 1950-1954. Because of its origins at Pike Factory, Nissan's specia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Barber Of Seville (play)
''The Barber of Seville or the Useless Precaution'' (french: Le Barbier de Séville ou la Précaution inutile) is a French play by Pierre Beaumarchais, with original music by Antoine-Laurent Baudron. It was initially conceived as an opéra comique, and was rejected as such in 1772 by the Comédie-Italienne. The play as it is now known was written in 1773, but, due to legal and political problems of the author, it was not performed until February 23, 1775, at the Comédie-Française in the Tuileries. It is the first play in a trilogy of which the other constituents are '' The Marriage of Figaro'' and '' The Guilty Mother''. Though the play was poorly received at first, Beaumarchais worked some fast editing of the script, turning it into a roaring success after three days. The play's title might be a pun on Tirso de Molina's earlier play ''El Burlador de Sevilla'' (''The Trickster of Seville''). Mozart wrote a set of 12 variations, K. 354, on one of Baudron's songs, "". Syno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Figaro (genus)
''Figaro'' is a genus of catshark, and part of the family Scyliorhinidae. Until 2008, ''Figaro'' was generally considered to be a subgenus of ''Galeus'' (sawtail catsharks). The two known species are found off Australia, inhabiting deep, offshore waters on or near the bottom. ''Figaro'' contains small, slender, firm-bodied sharks that bear distinctive crests of enlarged, spiny dermal denticles along the dorsal and ventral edges of their short caudal fins. The caudal peduncle is relatively long, such as that the anal and caudal fins are some distance apart. In adult males, the inner margins of the pelvic fins are fused together to form a subtle "apron" over the claspers. ''F. boardmani'' is a predator of fishes, crustaceans, and cephalopods, and is oviparous; less is known about the ''F. striatus''. Both are harmless and are of no economic importance. Taxonomy ''Figaro'' was coined as a subgenus of ''Pristiurus'' by Australian ichthyologist Gilbert Percy Whitley in a 192 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guilty Mother
''The Guilty Mother'' (), subtitled ''The Other Tartuffe'', is the third play of the '' Figaro'' trilogy by Pierre Beaumarchais; its predecessors were ''The Barber of Seville'' and ''The Marriage of Figaro''. This was the author's last play. It is rarely revived. Like the earlier plays of the trilogy it has been turned into operatic form, but it has not entered the general opera repertoire. Background The characters of Figaro and his associates were so popular that other dramatists had written sequels to ''The Barber of Seville'' and ''The Marriage of Figaro'', most notably M-N Delon, who brought out ''Le Mariage de Cherubin'' in 1785 and ''Le Mariage de Fanchette'' the following year. In the preface to the first published edition of ''The Marriage of Figaro'', Beaumarchais had declared his intention of writing a sequel. The Tartuffe figure who insinuates himself into the household for his own enrichment is Bégearss. Like Molière's original, he gains such influence over the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Figaro In London
''Figaro in London'' was an English comic paper of the early nineteenth century. Founded as a weekly on 10 December 1831, it ran until 31 December 1838. The French connection The paper's original editor was Gilbert Abbott à Beckett and it was mostly written by him, then by Henry Mayhew, who took over as editor between 1835 and 1836, after which à Beckett took over again. The reason for the choice of name was announced in the opening editorial as building on the success of the French satirical daily ''Le Figaro'', founded five years before. The allusion there had been to the hero of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais' play, ''Le Mariage de Figaro'', which poked fun at privilege. The preface to the first collected volume congratulated itself on the fact that “Ever since we made our first appearance in London, we have been ''Figaro here! Figaro there! Figaro everywhere!'' We did not presume to hope for a more favourable reception than our prototype in Paris, but we have the fla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Barber Of Seville
''The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution'' ( it, Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione ) is an ''opera buffa'' in two acts composed by Gioachino Rossini with an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's French comedy ''The Barber of Seville'' (1775). The première of Rossini's opera (under the title ''Almaviva, o sia L'inutile precauzione'') took place on 20 February 1816 at the Teatro Argentina, Rome, with designs by Angelo Toselli. Rossini's ''Barber of Seville'' has proven to be one of the greatest masterpieces of comedy within music, and has been described as the opera buffa of all "opere buffe". After two hundred years, it remains a popular work. Composition history Rossini's opera recounts the events of the first of the three plays by French playwright Pierre Beaumarchais that revolve around the clever and enterprising character named Figaro, the barber of the title. Mozart's opera ''The Marriage of Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Figaro Qua, Figaro Là
''Figaro Here, Figaro There'' (Italian: ''Figaro qua, Figaro là'') is a 1950 Italian historical comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and starring Totò and Isa Barzizza. The title and the plot allude to ''The Barber of Seville''.Bìspuri pp. 84–85 It was made at Scalera Studios in Rome. Set design was by Alberto Boccianti. Plot The film is set in the eighteenth century. The protagonist is Figaro, the Sevillian barber, who is likely to be arrested because he operates his shop on Sundays, which is forbidden. Figaro is a friend of a nobleman who fell in love with Rosina, his friend and daughter of the governor. But Rosina's father does not agree to their marriage. One day Rosina, through her maid Dove, tells the Count that one night she is staying at the inn "of four bulls". The Count and Figaro go with a friend to the inn before they get to Rosina and her court. Their plan is to replace the host, pose as their owners of the inn and abduct Rosina. But unfortunately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crazy Day Or The Marriage Of Figaro
''Crazy Day or The Marriage of Figaro'' (russian: Безумный день, или женитьба Фигаро) is a modern comedy musical staged by television channels «NTV» (Russia) and «Inter» (Ukraine) in association with «Melorama Production», under direction of Semen Gorov in 2003, based on the 1784 Pierre Beaumarchais' play ''The Marriage of Figaro''. The musical was aired for the first time on the New Year's night of 2004. Plot The day before his wedding, handsome and merry Figaro, played by Boris Hvoshnyansky, learns of the bride Susanna (Anastasia Stotskaya), but he has a rival - voluptuous Count Almaviva, played by Philip Kirkorov. Earl intends to use the old right of the first night in his possessions and to steal from the lovers their happiness. The case becomes more complicated as another lover - Marceline (Sofia Rotaru) claims her love for Figaro as well, requiring a considerable amount of money to return and marry her. Figaro uses infinitely jealousy cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
