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* TheSoprano: Florestine. Hoo boy, Florestine. She sings way higher than either of the other two soprano leads.
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''The Ghosts of Versailles'' is an opera by John Corigliano, who is probably most famous for composing the score of the film ''Film/TheRedViolin.''
It concerns the ghosts of Marie Antoinette, King Louis XVI, and Pierre Beaumarchais, who is most famous for writing the Figaro trilogy of plays, the first two of which, ''Theatre/TheBarberOfSeville'' and ''Theatre/TheMarriageOfFigaro,'' were adapted into celebrated operas.
The ghosts have grown extraordinarily bored, so Beaumarchais decides to write a new Figaro opera (loosely adapted from the obscure third play, ''The Guilty Mother''), which he intends to use to re-write history so that Marie Antoinette, distraught at her death, is not executed.
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!!Tropes:
* AngryMobSong: This takes place during the French Revolution...
* DeadpanSnarker: King Louis XVI
* TheDogBitesBack: Wilhelm, near the end.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Inverted. Begearss is a slimy-sounding tenor.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Marie Antoinette, by the end.
* IAmSong: Figaro's aria "They Wish They Could Kill Me."
* {{Jerkass}}: Count Almaviva
* LargeHam: This is a "Grand Opera Buffa." That should tell you all you ever need to know.
* MoodWhiplash: The opera goes from scenes of [[LargeHam Large Hams]] engaging in wacky hijinks to scenes of mobs with heads on the ends of sticks.
* RageAgainstTheAuthor: In act 2, Figaro decides to abandon the script, figuring that Marie Antoinette is not worth saving.
* SceneryPorn: The original Met production had a very, ''very'' lavish set.
* ShowWithinAShow: "A Figaro for Antonia"
* TheSoprano: Florestine. Hoo boy, Florestine. She sings way higher than either of the other two soprano leads.
* SycophanticServant: Wilhelm, the large but dim-witted (and non-singing) servant of Begearss.
* TenorBoy: Leon
* VillainSong: "Long Live the Worm"
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It concerns the ghosts of Marie Antoinette, King Louis XVI, and Pierre Beaumarchais, who is most famous for writing the Figaro trilogy of plays, the first two of which, ''Theatre/TheBarberOfSeville'' and ''Theatre/TheMarriageOfFigaro,'' were adapted into celebrated operas.
The ghosts have grown extraordinarily bored, so Beaumarchais decides to write a new Figaro opera (loosely adapted from the obscure third play, ''The Guilty Mother''), which he intends to use to re-write history so that Marie Antoinette, distraught at her death, is not executed.
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!!Tropes:
* AngryMobSong: This takes place during the French Revolution...
* DeadpanSnarker: King Louis XVI
* TheDogBitesBack: Wilhelm, near the end.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Inverted. Begearss is a slimy-sounding tenor.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Marie Antoinette, by the end.
* IAmSong: Figaro's aria "They Wish They Could Kill Me."
* {{Jerkass}}: Count Almaviva
* LargeHam: This is a "Grand Opera Buffa." That should tell you all you ever need to know.
* MoodWhiplash: The opera goes from scenes of [[LargeHam Large Hams]] engaging in wacky hijinks to scenes of mobs with heads on the ends of sticks.
* RageAgainstTheAuthor: In act 2, Figaro decides to abandon the script, figuring that Marie Antoinette is not worth saving.
* SceneryPorn: The original Met production had a very, ''very'' lavish set.
* ShowWithinAShow: "A Figaro for Antonia"
* TheSoprano: Florestine. Hoo boy, Florestine. She sings way higher than either of the other two soprano leads.
* SycophanticServant: Wilhelm, the large but dim-witted (and non-singing) servant of Begearss.
* TenorBoy: Leon
* VillainSong: "Long Live the Worm"
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