The standard operas, their plots and their music; . inted in love, — Bartolo, who hasbeen rejected by Susanna, and Marcellina, whose affection forFigaro has not been requited. The Count seeks to get rid ofCherubino by ordering him off to the wars, but he is savedby Susanna, who disguises him in female attire. The Countess,Susanna, Figaro, and Cherubino then conspire to punish theCount for his infidelity. The latter suddenly appears at hiswifes door, and finding it locked demands an entrance. Cher-ubino, alarmed, hides himself in a closet and bars the Count is admitted, and finding the
The standard operas, their plots and their music; . inted in love, — Bartolo, who hasbeen rejected by Susanna, and Marcellina, whose affection forFigaro has not been requited. The Count seeks to get rid ofCherubino by ordering him off to the wars, but he is savedby Susanna, who disguises him in female attire. The Countess,Susanna, Figaro, and Cherubino then conspire to punish theCount for his infidelity. The latter suddenly appears at hiswifes door, and finding it locked demands an entrance. Cher-ubino, alarmed, hides himself in a closet and bars the Count is admitted, and finding the Countess in confusioninsists upon searching the closet. He goes out to find somemeans of breaking in the door, and Cherubino improves theopportunity to jump out of the window, while Susanna takeshis place and confronts the puzzled Count. Antonio, thegardener, comes in and complains that some one has jumpedfrom the window and broken his flower-pots. Figaro at onceasserts that he did it. A ludicrous side plot unfolds at this point. Marcellina ap-. Sigrid Arnoldson as Cherubiiio MOZART 198 pears with a contract of marriage signed by Figaro, bringingBartolo as a witness. The Count decides that Figaro mustfulfil his contract, but the latter escapes by showing that heis the son of Marcellina, and that Bartolo is his the main plot is developed in another conspiracyto punish the Count. Susanna contrives a rendezvous withthe Count at night in the garden, having previously arrangedwith the Countess that she shall disguise herself as the maid,the latter also assuming the part of the Countess, and arrivein time to surprise the two. The page also puts in an ap-pearance, and gets his ears boxed for his attentions to thedisguised Countess. Figaro, who has been informed thatSusanna and the Count are to meet in the garden, comes onthe scene, and in revenge makes a passionate declaration oflove to the supposed Countess, upon which the Count, whois growing more and more bewild
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