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The Marriage of Figaro
Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata (The
Marriage of Figaro, or The Day of Madness), K. 492, is an opera buffa
(comic opera) composed in 1786 in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
with Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, based on a stage comedy by
Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro (1784).
Although the play by Beaumarchais was at first banned
in Vienna because of its satire of the aristocracy, considered
dangerous in the decade before the French Revolution, the opera became
one of Mozart's most successful works. The overture is especially famous
and is often played as a concert piece. The musical material of the
overture is not used later in the work, aside from two brief phrases
during the Count's part in the terzetto Cosa sento! in act 1.
