page_title: The Guilty Mother
section_title: Characters
hierarchical_section_title: The Guilty Mother / Characters
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Adrien Nargeot (* 1837): Gräfin Almaviva. Illustration zu Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732–1799): La mère coupable (1792). Aus: Oeuvres complètes de Beaumarchais, hrsg. v. Édouard Fournier, Paris 1876, S. 190/191. Bibliothèque nationale de France.
context_page_description: The Guilty Mother, subtitled The Other Tartuffe, is the third play of the Figaro trilogy by Pierre Beaumarchais; its predecessors were The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro. This was the author's last play. It is rarely revived. Like the earlier plays of the trilogy it has been turned into operatic form, but it has not entered the general opera repertoire.
context_section_description: The characters, as described by Beaumarchais's characterisations, are:
  Count Almaviva, a Spanish lord with noble pride but not vanity.
  Countess Almaviva, very melancholy, and with the piety of an angel.
  Chevalier Léon, their son (actually, the son of the Countess and Chérubin, who died in battle); young man obsessed with freedom, like all ardent new souls.
  Florestine, ward of Count Almaviva; a young person full of compassion.
  Bégearss, Irishman, a Major in the Spanish military, an old secretary to the Count when he was ambassador; a very deep man, and great schemer of intrigues, accomplished in the art of troublemaking.
  Figaro, servant and confidant of the Count; a man formed by worldly experience and events.
  Suzanne, maid and confidant of the Countess; wife of Figaro; excellent woman, devoted to her mistress and having left behind the illusions of youth.
  M. Fal, the Count's notary; a precise and honest man.
  Guillaume, German valet to M. Bégearss; a man too gentle for such a master.
caption: Illustration of Countess Almaviva by Émile Bayard (1876)
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