Lawrence Brownlee in Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" with Virginia Opera. Brownlee made his Metropolitan Opera debut in a new production of "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" in 2007. The role has since become one of his most recognizable and famous. He has subsequently appeared in "Il Barbiere" in Vienna, Milan, Berlin, Madrid, Dresden, Munich, Baden-Baden, Hamburg, Tokyo, New York, Washington, San Diego, Seattle, and Boston. Brownlee's career highlights include performances of "The Barber of Seville" at the Vienna State Opera, the Boston Lyric Opera and Madrid's Teatro Real. He has appeared in Rossini's "L'italiana in Algeri" and "La Cenerentola" at Milan's La
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