The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart, Dum 02 Oct. 2022, De la (2022/2022), Dirijor Stephen Scovasso, Christ and St Stephen's Church, New York City, United States

Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) K. 492, is a commedia per musica (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. This was one of three operas in which they collaborated. The others being Don Giovanni (1787) and Cosi Fan Tutte (1790). 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 and effecting a reconciliation with the Countess Almaviva. This opera has been described as being "one of the supreme masterpieces of operatic comedy, whose rich sense of humanity shines out of Mozart’s miraculous score".