Mozart’s opera ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ is a sequel to ‘The Barber of Seville’. The opera makes fun of the aristocracy so it was banned in Austria. Side note with apologizes to opera lovers who already knew this, the opening music in the movie Trading Places is the the overture to ‘The Marriage of Figaro’. Making fun of rich people is as fun today as it was back then.

(Great Courses – How to Listen to and Understand Opera)