Axur, re d'Ormus is an operatic dramma tragicomico in five acts by Antonio Salieri. The libretto was by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Axur is the Italian version of Salieri's 1787 French-language work Tarare whic
Page from the manuscript
Friedrich Anton Lohrman Projekt kostiumu do opery Axur, król Ormus
Friedrich Anton Lohrman Wojciech Bogusławski w kostiumie despoty z opery Axur
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was a French playwright and diplomat of the Age of Enlightenment. Best known for his three Figaro plays, at various times in his life he was also a watchmaker, in
Portrait by Jean-Marc Nattier, c. 1755
Louis XV by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, (1748)
The original title page of The Marriage of Figaro
Statue of Beaumarchais in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, by Louis Clausade (1895)