Whether Rolex, the official timepiece of Los Angeles Opera, knows it not, it is as much a beneficiary of the work of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais as the opera company itself.

Actors who played the role of Pierre Caron de Beaumarchais: Bob Kaliban,Eddie Roll [Broadway] Add a Show Listing Next on Stage: Email: Sign-up: News on your favorite shows, specials & more!

Surely one source would be the works of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, celebrating the fictional barber from Seville and French nobleman’s retainer, Figaro.

Silas Deane, left, worked with Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, center, to secure gunpowder from Antoine Lavoisier, right. Alamy (3) Shortly after taking command of the Continental Army in ...

Audiences roared with laughter at Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro when it premiered in 1786 every bit as much as they had reeled at Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais’ play of the ...