The Marriage of Figaro

Overview

A madcap three-part miniseries about a sex-mad Eurocrat trying to sleep with his servant, his frustrated aristocratic wife and her toy-boy, and a love-child who's forced into marriage with his own mother, not to mention cross-dressing, blackmail and a death-defying leap from a second-floor window.

Created by Nicholas Broadhurst, Tony Britten

Network

• BBC Two

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

• 

  Andrew C. Wadsworth

  Sir Cecil Portico

  3 eps

• 

  Jan Hartley

  Rosina

  3 eps

• 

  Harry Burton

  Figaro

  3 eps

• 

  Jacinta Mulcahy

  Cherubino

  3 eps

Themes

• based on novel or book
• based on play or musical
• miniseries
• based on opera

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