The Marriage of Figaro (play)
The play formed the basis for an opera with a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte and music by Mozart, also called "The Marriage of Figaro" (1786). In 1799, another opera based on the same play, "La pazza giornata, ovvero Il matrimonio di Figaro", was produced in Venice with libretto by Gaetano Rossi and music by Marcos Portugal.
Karl Ludwig Giesecke
In later work, Giesecke translated the Italian libretti of Mozart's operas "Le nozze di Figaro" (1793) and "Così fan tutte" (1794) into German. In total he was to write libretti for more than fifteen operas by various composers between 1789 and 1800; see listing below.