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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.
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. [1]
What a gentle little Zephyr) is a duettino, or a short duet, from act 3, scene X, of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 1786 opera The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492, to a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. In the duettino, Countess Almaviva (a soprano ) dictates to Susanna (also a soprano) the invitation to a tryst addressed to the countess' husband in a plot ...
Filmmaker James Gray, who is directing a new production of 'The Marriage of Figaro' at L.A. Opera, returns Mozart to his 18th century milieu.
Non più andrai" (You shall go no more) is an aria for bass from Mozart's 1786 opera The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492. The Italian libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro (1784). It is sung by Figaro at the end of the first act. [1]
Mozart composed Le nozze di Figaro in 1786, in his first collaboration with Lorenzo Da Ponte, based on the play La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro (The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro) by Beaumarchais. [2] "Dove sono" is an aria of Countess Rosina from the third act, preceded by a recitative, "E Susanna non vien!" (Susanna's not come ...
Largo al factotum" (Make way for the factotum) is an aria (cavatina) from The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini, sung at the first entrance of the title character, Figaro. The repeated "Figaro"s before the final patter section are an icon in popular culture of operatic singing.
The Marriage of Figaro (1786); Don Giovanni (1787); Così fan tutte (1790). All created for the Court Opera in Vienna, they are in Italian, the language considered most suitable for opera at the time, and are Mozart’s most popular operas apart from Die Entführung aus dem Serail and The Magic Flute, composed on German libretti in the ...