Marcellina — Marriage of Figaro Character Profile

About Marcellina

An older woman seeking to marry Figaro to settle a financial debt. Her subplot is resolved through the collective scheme of the main characters.

Character Facts

Played by

Elsa Wagner

Appears in

Marriage of Figaro (1949)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (3)

• Marcellina — Conflict Debt Claim — Figaro (Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender)

  Marcellina demands marriage from Figaro to settle a financial debt.

• Marcellina — Alliance Co-Conspirators — Dr. Bartolo (Victor Janson)

  Former partners collaborating to manipulate the household for personal gain.

• Marcellina — Family Mother & Son — Don Curzio (Franz Weber)

  Legal authority figure presiding over disputes, secretly related to Marcellina.

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More characters from Marriage of Figaro

• Susanna (Angelika Hauff)
• Figaro (Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender)
• Gräfin Rosine (Sabine Peters)
• Graf Almaviva (Mathieu Ahlersmeyer)
• Notenschreiber (Ewald Wenck)
• Dr. Bartolo (Victor Janson)
• Basilio (Alfred Balthoff)
• Don Curzio (Franz Weber)
• Antonio (Ernst Legal)
• Barbarina (Katharina Mayberg)