Opera Cleveland Opera Cleveland Cleveland Opera was incorporated by David Bamberger, Carola Bamberger, and John D. Heavenrich in March 1976 and presented its first season in October and November of that year with sold-out productions of Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" and Rossini's "The Barber of Seville". By 1984, it had become the resident opera company at Playhouse Square, with performances at the State Theater. The company played an integral part in the revitalization of Cleveland's historic Cleveland Theater District and was a leader in the movement to make theaters accessible to the physically challenged. There was considerable overlap between the orchestra personnel of
The Guilty Mother 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. 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