Study Guide
Study Guide Contents
GENERAL INFORMATION
- Beginner's Guide to Opera
- Who's Who At the Opera
- The Lyric Opera House
- BOC Education Programs
- A Bibliography of Selected Readings
- Education Resources
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PREVIOUS OPERAS
Le Nozze di Figaro
The Marriage of Figaro
Opera buffa in four acts, K. 492
Music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
b. 27 January 1756, Salzburg
d. 5 December 1791, Vienna
Libretto - Lorenzo da Ponte, after the comedy La folle journée, ou Le mariage de Figaro by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1784)
Composed October 1785-April 1786
Premiere: 1 May 1786, Burgtheater, Vienna
U.S. Premiere: 10 May 1824, Park Theater, New York
Principal characters:
Figaro (bass-baritone) (FEE-gah-roh) - a servant in the Almaviva residence
Susanna (soprano) (soo-ZAH-nah) - his fiance
Cherubino (mezzo-soprano) (keh-roo-BEE-noh) - a young page
Count Almaviva (baritone) (al-mah-VEE-vah)
The Countess (soprano)
Le Nozze di Figaro (Leh NOH-zay dee FEE-gah-roh) takes place in Seville during the mid 18th century.