Reischea candidate marriage of figaro

Opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

For other uses, see The Marriage of Figaro (disambiguation).

The Marriage of Figaro (Italian: Le nozze di Figaro, pronounced[leˈnɔttsediˈfiːɡaro]^ⓘ), 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.

Reischea candidate marriage of figaro

It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1 May 1786. The opera's libretto is based on the 1784 stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro ("The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro"). It tells how the servants Figaro and Susanna succeed in getting married, foiling the efforts of their philandering employer Count Almaviva to seduce Susanna and teaching him a lesson in fidelity.

Considered one of the greatest operas ever written,^[1] it is a cornerstone of the repertoire and appears consistently among the top ten in the Operabase list of most frequ