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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 has been filmed as opera several times. 1949 film, East German production with actors and dubbed singing voices, except for Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender as Figaro; 1960 film, Australian TV film, sung in English; 1976 film, directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle (see above)
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 ...
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]
The cavatina " Se vuol ballare" is an aria for bass from the first act of the opera The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro (1784). The Italian title means "If you want to dance".
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.
Liszt in 1843, around the time of the piece's conception. The Fantasy on Themes from Mozart's Figaro and Don Giovanni [1] (German: Fantasie über Themen aus Mozarts Figaro und Don Giovanni), [2] S.697, is an operatic paraphrase for solo piano by Franz Liszt, based on themes from two different Mozart's operas: The Marriage of Figaro, K.492 and Don Giovanni, K.527.
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 ...