The comic opera, "Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)," was first premiered in Vienna on May 1, 1786. While the four-act comic opera was composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the libretto in Italian was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. The story of the opera is about how servants Figaro and Susanna finally get married, in spite of the advances of Count Almaviva, their philandering employer who wanted to se…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 10:51AM on April 17, 2019