The Barber of Seville

References

  1. ^ "Online Library of Liberty".
  2. ^ "Vive le vin, vive l'amour"
  3. ^ Opera and the Enlightenment by Thomas Bauman and Marita McClymonds, p. 243
  4. ^ Pierre-Louis Duchartre, The Italian Comedy
  5. ^ Le Barbier de Séville (1773), act I, scene II, Pierre de Beaumarchais, Note: Translation varies with "I force myself to laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry." Original French is 'Je me presse de rire de tout, de peur d'être obligé d'en pleurer."
  6. ^ Beaumarchais and the Theater, by William Driver Howarth

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