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  1. Setting. The Count's castle near Seville. The Marriage of Figaro (French: La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro ("The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro")) is a comedy in five acts, written in 1778 by Pierre Beaumarchais. This play is the second in the Figaro trilogy, preceded by The Barber of Seville and followed by The Guilty Mother.

  2. The Marriage of Figaro, comedy in five acts by Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais, performed in 1784 as La Folle Journée; ou, le mariage de Figaro (“The Madness of a Day, or the Marriage of Figaro”). It is the sequel to his comic play The Barber of Seville and is the work upon which Mozart based the opera Le nozze di Figaro (1786).

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  4. Jun 16, 2022 · Four. Music Length. Three Hours. Widely considered one of the greatest opera’s ever written, The Marriage of Figaro (Italian: Le Nozze di Figaro) was the first of three world-renown opera’s collaborated on by composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte. It is packed with hit after hit song, and is truly a masterpiece of ...

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    • Italian
    • May 1, 1786
    • Lorenzo Da Ponte
  5. Mar 18, 2011 · The story of Mozart's 'The Marriage of Figaro' Mozart's Figaro is one of the rare examples of a successful literary sequel. The original play by Beaumarchais was a follow-up to his previous hit ...

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