The Marriage of Figaro
The Marriage of Figaro (, ), 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. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1 May 1786. The opera's libretto is based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, "La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro" ("The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro"), which was first performed in 1784. 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.
L'amor coniugale
Like Beethoven's "Fidelio", the libretto of "L'amor coniugale" is based on Jean-Nicolas Bouilly's French libretto for Pierre Gaveaux's 1798 opera "Léonore ou L'amour conjugal". Unlike "Fidelio" which focuses on the struggle for political liberty, Mayr's opera, also known as "Il custode di buon cuore" (The Good-hearted Jailer) and described in its libretto as a "farsa sentimentale", focuses more on the interpersonal relationships between the protagonists and contains comic elements. Rossi condensed Bouilly's two-act libretto into one act containing 19 scenes and changed the setting from the Napoleonic wars to 17th century Poland.