"The Marriage of Figaro" by Wolfgang Mozart

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"Mozart's opera Le Nozze di Figaro ("The Marriage of Figaro") was first performed at the Burgtheater in Vienna in 1786, with Mozart himself conducting the orchestra (Holden, 1990, p. 251). The opera was based on a play by the French playwright Beaumarchais, which was first performed in Paris in 1784 (Angermuller, 1988, p. 133). Beaumarchais' Le Marriage de Figaro was a sequel to his earlier play, Le Barbier de Seville ("The Barber of Seville"). Both of these plays were based on a Spanish character named Figaro. In Le Marriage de Figaro, the barber Figaro has become a servant to Count Almaviva. He is betrothed to marry Susanna, a young woman who is the maid to the Countess Almaviva. The Count has his own desire for Susanna; however, in the end he fails to seduce her and is instead tricked into confessing his indiscretion to his wife, the Countess."

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