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Professor Catriona Seth was Andrew McGregor's 'expert guest' for BBC Radio 3's broadcast of "The Marriage of Figaro" from the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. The discussion included aspects of the performance like the set and staging but also references to the life of Beaumarchais on whose play "Le Mariage de Figaro" Da Ponte and Mozart based their opera. You can catch up with the opera, in a memorable performance, on i-player.

Catriona said: "It was a delight to record this: it is a wonderful opera based on a marvellous eighteenth-century French play."