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An opera by John Corigliano, who is probably most famous for composing the score of the film The Red Violin.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, The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro, 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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