The Abduction of Figaro The Abduction of Figaro The Abduction of Figaro is a comic opera, described as "A Simply Grand Opera by P. D. Q. Bach," which is actually the work of composer Peter Schickele. It is a parody of opera in general, and the title is a play on two operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "The Abduction from the Seraglio" and "The Marriage of Figaro". Those two operas, "Così fan tutte", and "Don Giovanni", as well as Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance" are among the core inspirations for the piece. Schickele was commissioned to "discover" this opera by the Minnesota
Marta Belen locations around the United States, Brazil, Portugal, and Spain. She sang for the Tucson Opera (now the Arizona Opera) and the San Francisco Opera. She sang the principal soprano role for "La Traviata", "Madame Butterfly", and "La Boheme", as well as performing in "La Sonnambula", "Daughter of the Regiment" (La fille du régiment), "The Magic Flute", and "The Abduction from the Seraglio". In the late 1970s she recorded Rachmaninoff's art songs with Paula Fan accompanying. Marta married Roger Irwin in 1962. They later divorced in 1976. She married David Hutchinson in 1983. In 1966 she began studying Buddhism, and lived