The harbinger INSOLENCE

The freedom of tone, vigor and humor replicas, the alacrity of the text ... all combine to make of Figaro, as a wily servant Scapin, matchmaker good fortune of his master, Almaviva, destroyer of cabal gerontes Basile and Bartolo aimed at Rosine wife of the latter, so all combine to see him as the harbinger of the Great Earthquake, the "Tabula rasa" (dixit François Ferret), the founding event of our morals democratic, the French Revolution.
But Figaro is also writing an insolent piece of happiness, playful as a safe youth itself, love as it should be and as it should be enterprising. In short, one of the great texts of French theater.