(The Guilty Mother) is an opera in three acts, Op. 412, by Darius Milhaud to a libretto by Madeleine Milhaud after the 1792 play, the third in Beaumarchais' Figaro trilogy. It premiered at the Grand Théâtre de Genève on 13 June 1966.
Roles
RoleVoice typePremiere Cast, 13 June 1966 (Conductor: Serge Baudo) Count Almaviva baritone Louis Quilico Rosine, the Countess soprano Phyllis Curtin Chevalier Léon, her son tenor Eric Tappy Florestine, ward of Count Almaviva coloratura soprano Anne-Marie Sanial Bégearss, an Irish schemer baritone Jacques Doucet Figaro, Almaviva's valet baritone Jean-Christophe Benoît Suzanne, his wife mezzo-soprano Cora Canne-Meyer Master Fal bass José van Dam
References
Palmer, Christopher (1992), 'Mère coupable, La' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London)