The Marriage of Figaro/YMMV

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  • Adaptation Displacement: Especially outside France, the opera is far better known than the Beaumarchais play that it's based on.
  • Crowning Music of Awesome: the finale, Contessa, perdono. It's also a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming when the Countess does forgive him.
    • The opening.
  • Ending Fatigue: Most critics will agree to at least some amount of this, whether it be a few individual numbers in the fourth act (which are sometimes cut), or the fourth act itself.
  • Seinfeld Is Unfunny: Big time! It is hard for a modern audience to realize just how shocking and innovative it was at the time. This was one of the first times a play portrayed servants as not just equals but betters to aristocrats, it's also was one of the earliest feminist works. Not only that but all of the male aristocrats are bad guys. This is especially daring when one consider at the time servants and women for the most part couldn't speak out against aristocratic men, and nearly all opera goers were male aristocrats. However now it just seems like standard romantic comedy.
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