It was Mozart who originally selected Beaumarchais's play and brought it to Da Ponte, who turned it into a libretto in six weeks, rewriting it in poetic Italian and removing all of the original's political references.

The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's comedy Le Barbier de Séville ( 1775 ), which was originally an opéra comique, or a mixture of spoken play with music.

* February 23 – Première of Pierre Beaumarchais's play, The Barber of Seville, which will later provide material for more than one opera.

He also adapted Beaumarchais's comedy The Marriage of Figaro into a new play Ta veseli dan ali Matiček se ženi ( This Merry Day or Matiček's Wedding ).

The role was created in The Barber of Seville by Beaumarchais's friend Préville.

Here he attended the performances of Beaumarchais's Mariage de Figaro until he had memorized the whole.

Although Beaumarchais's Marriage of Figaro was at first banned in Vienna because of its licentiousness, Mozart's librettist managed to get official approval for an operatic version which eventually achieved great success.

Long before France's open entry into the war, Vergennes approved of the Pierre Beaumarchais's plan for secret French assistance.

The second offering of the season — Pierre Beaumarchais's Le Mariage de Figaro — proved to be both a critical and popular success and maintained Copeau's standards.

Marceline appeared as an actress and singer in Douai, Rouen, the Opéra-Comique in Paris, and the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, where she notably played Rosine in Beaumarchais's Le Barbier de Séville.

The ridiculous character of Don Guzman was a jab at Beaumarchais's famous enemy Goëzman.

The villain Bégearss was reportedly based on Beaumarchais's enemy, an Irishman called Bergasse.

Golovin provided the scenic design for an important production of Pierre Beaumarchais's The Marriage of Figaro at the Moscow Art Theatre.

Nimzowitsch supplemented many of the earlier simplistic assumptions about chess strategy by enunciating in his turn a further number of general concepts of defensive play aimed at achieving one's own goals by preventing realization of the opponent's plans.

His cheekbone was shattered, he nearly lost the sight of the eye, was unable to play for over a year, and never regained his earlier batting ability.

If the other player also knows to offer sacrifices, the expert also has to manipulate the number of available sacrifices through earlier play.

His father, Henry Churchill de Mille ( 1853 – 1893 ), was a North Carolina-born dramatist and lay reader in the Episcopal Church, who had earlier begun a career as a playwright, writing his first play at age 15.

Camp is responsible for pioneering the play from scrimmage ( earlier games featured a rugby scrum, and was also the one who decided that teams should have four downs to advance the ball ten yards.

Coinciding with its transmission, a five-track EP of songs from the play, recorded earlier in Berlin, was released as David Bowie in Bertolt Brecht's Baal.

It is originally based on his earlier game Elfenroads ( published by White Wind ), but since Elfenroads took about four hours for a game, the play was simplified to reduce the time closer to an hour, making it appeal more as a family game.

" Writing in Collier's more than 20 years earlier, Dorais ' Notre Dame teammate Knute Rockne acknowledged Cochems as the early leader in the use of the pass, observing, " One would have thought that so effective a play would have been instantly copied and become the vogue.

Conversely, the defensive team will know that the offense has to cover a good deal of ground in a single play, will expect a forward pass, and will know from earlier study something of the propensities of the offense they face.

Shakespeare's Henry IV plays and Henry V adapted and developed the material in an earlier play called the Famous Victories of Henry V, in which Sir John " Jockey " Oldcastle appears as a dissolute companion of the young Henry.

In the First Folio his name is spelled " Falstaffe ", so Shakespeare may have directly appropriated the spelling of the name he used in the earlier play.

Gilbert had written a blank verse farce based on the same material in 1870, called The Princess, and he reused a good deal of the dialogue from his earlier play in the libretto of Princess Ida.

Games that are designed specifically for the Game Boy Color are housed in clear-colored cartridges, and will not function in an earlier Game Boy or the Super Game Boy ( or will simply display a warning message and refuse to play ).

He may also have drawn on or perhaps written an earlier ( hypothetical ) Elizabethan play known today as the Ur-Hamlet.

According to a popular theory, Shakespeare's main source is believed to be an earlier play — now lost — known today as the Ur-Hamlet.

However, the general theory reduces to the special theory over sufficiently small regions of spacetime, where curvature effects become less important and the earlier inertial frame arguments can come back into play.

Hand in Glove would fare no better than his earlier play, running the same number of performances, 40.

As the play appears to celebrate King James's ancestors and the Stuart accession to the throne in 1603 ( James believed himself to be descended from Banquo ), scholars say that the play is unlikely to have been composed earlier than 1603 and suggest that the parade of eight kings — which the witches show Macbeth in a vision in Act IV — is a compliment to King James.

Nunn had directed Nicol Williamson and Helen Mirren in the play two years earlier, but that production had largely failed to impress.

They had earlier collaborated on the play Secrets from the BBC series Black and Blue in 1973.

John Cargill Thompson's play Macbeth Speaks 1997, a reworking of his earlier Macbeth Speaks, is a monologue delivered by the historical Macbeth, aware of what Shakespeare and posterity have done to him.

Although there had been earlier attempts at professional basketball leagues, including the American Basketball League and the NBL, the BAA was the first league to attempt to play primarily in large arenas in major cities.

And A. R. Braunmuller ( not an Oxfordian ), in the New Cambridge edition of the play, finds the 1605-06 theory inconclusive and merely argues for a date of composition no earlier than 1603.

While the exact relationship of the short and apparently primitive text of Q1 to the later published texts is not resolved, Hardin Craig among others has suggested that it may represent an earlier draft of the play and hence would confirm that the play referred to in 1589 is in fact merely an earlier draft of Shakespeare's play.

Barber, Spanos, & Chaves ( 1974 ) proposed a nonstate " cognitive-behavioural " theory of hypnosis, similar in some respects to Sarbin's social role-taking theory and building upon the earlier research of Barber.

In 1974, Theodore Barber and his colleagues published an influential review of the research which argued, following the earlier social psychology of Theodore R. Sarbin, that hypnotism was better understood not as a " special state " but as the result of normal psychological variables, such as active imagination, expectation, appropriate attitudes, and motivation.

In contrast, the model that generally held for opera buffa was having two acts ( as, for example, The Barber of Seville ), dealing with comic scenes and situations as earlier stated and using the lower male voices to the exclusion of the castrati.

The South Austin Jug Band is a young Austin, Texas group that plays newer variations on traditional music but does not include a jug player and is not related to the earlier Austin Jug Band which featured vocalists Danny Barton and Galen Barber.

Chad played drums on the entire album with the exception of " Floyd the Barber ", " Paper Cuts ", and " Downer " which featured drummer Dale Crover from an earlier recording session prior to Channing joining the band.

Sree Padma and Anthony Barber also associate the earlier development of the Tathāgatagarbha Sūtra with the Mahāsāṃghikas, and conclude that the Mahāsāṃghikas of the Āndhra region were responsible for the inception of the Tathāgatagarbha doctrine.

Sree Padma and Anthony Barber also associate the earlier development of the Tathāgatagarbha Sūtra with the Mahāsāṃghikas, and conclude that the Mahāsāṃghikas of the Āndhra region were responsible for the inception of the Tathāgatagarbha doctrine.

Sree Padma and Anthony Barber also associate the earlier development of the Tathāgatagarbha Sūtra with the Mahāsāṃghikas, and conclude that the Mahāsāṃghikas of the Āndhra region were responsible for the inception of the Tathāgatagarbha doctrine.

Sree Padma and Anthony Barber also associate the earlier development of the Tathāgatagarbha Sūtra with the Mahāsāṃghikas, and conclude that the Mahāsāṃghikas of the Āndhra region were responsible for the inception of the Tathāgatagarbha doctrine.