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The Marriage of Figaro (Italian: Le nozze di Figaro, pronounced [le ˈnɔttse di ˈfiːɡaro] ⓘ), K. 492, is a commedia per musica (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1 May 1786.
It follows that Figaro would gladly make the Count dance (or even caper) kicking his arse! At least a symbolic revenge of that “sacrilegious kick” Mozart had received up his backside from ...
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Explore the musical work "Le nozze di Figaro, K.492" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on IMSLP.
Learn about Mozart's opera buffa Le nozze di Figaro, a farce of mistaken identities and power dynamics in the Count's castle. Find out the characters, plot, music, and history of this classic comedy.
A profoundly humane comedy, Le Nozze di Figaro is a remarkable marriage of Mozart’s music at the height of his genius and one of the best librettos ever set. In adapting a play that caused a scandal with its revolutionary take on 18th-century society, librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte focused less on the original topical references and more on the ...
2 days ago · Le nozze di Figaro. The Marriage of Figaro, comic opera in four acts by Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte), which premiered in Vienna at the Burgtheater on May 1, 1786.
An acknowledged masterpiece of the opera canon, Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro today holds a prominent place in the Metropolitan Opera’s repertory. It was not always so. In the Met’s early years, Mozart’s operas were revered but were not popular box office draws.
