Understanding the Women of Mozart's OperasIs The Marriage of Figaro just about Figaro? Is Don Giovanni's story the only one or even the most interesting one in the opera that bears his name? For generations of critics, historians, and directors, it's Mozart's men who have mattered most. Too often, the female characters have been understood from the male protagonist's point of view or simply reduced on stage (and in print) to paper cutouts from the age of the powdered wig and the tightly