The Imperial Italian opera company paid Mozart 450 florins for the work this was three times his (low) yearly salary when he had worked as a court musician in Salzburg. The libretto was approved by the Emperor before any music was written by Mozart. In particular, Da Ponte replaced Figaro's climactic speech against inherited nobility with an equally angry aria against unfaithful wives. It was Mozart who originally selected Beaumarchais's play and brought it to Da Ponte, who turned it into a libretto in six weeks, rewriting it in poetic Italian and removing all of the original's political references.
The opera was the first of three collaborations between Mozart and Da Ponte their later collaborations were Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte. Mozart's librettist managed to get official approval from the emperor for an operatic version which eventually achieved great success. Beaumarchais's Mariage de Figaro was at first banned in Vienna Emperor Joseph II stated that "since the piece contains much that is objectionable, I therefore expect that the Censor shall either reject it altogether, or at any rate have such alterations made in it that he shall be responsible for the performance of this play and for the impression it may make", after which the Austrian Censor duly forbade performing the German version of the play. īeaumarchais's earlier play The Barber of Seville had already made a successful transition to opera in a version by Paisiello. 1 out of the 20 operas featured, with the magazine describing the work as being "one of the supreme masterpieces of operatic comedy, whose rich sense of humanity shines out of Mozart’s miraculous score". In 2017, BBC News Magazine asked 172 opera singers to vote for the best operas ever written. 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.Ĭonsidered one of the greatest operas ever written it is a cornerstone of the repertoire and appears consistently among the top ten in the Operabase list of most frequently performed operas. 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 premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on. The Marriage of Figaro (Italian: Le nozze di Figaro, pronounced ( listen)), K. 492, is an opera buffa (comic opera) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte.
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