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.
Daniel Schiebeler
Schiebeler wrote several librettos for operas and oratorios, such as "Basilio und Quiteria" based on an episode form Cervantes' "Don Quixote". He was a student, age 18, when he selected the scene of the hero and his squire taking part in the wedding of Camacho. Based on his extensive studies of Spanish literature, he was able to work from the original Spanish text. His libretto is subtitled "Singgedicht für das Theater" ("dramatic libretto for the theater") and has detailed directions for a performance. Schiebeler offered the libretto to Georg Philipp Telemann, who set it as an opera, "Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho", not without making several practical changes to the libretto. The opera premiered on 5 November 1761 in the concert hall "Auf dem Kamp" in Hamburg, because Hamburg had no working opera house at the time. Schiebeler wrote the libretto for Johann Adam Hiller's "Lisuart und Dariolette oder Die Frage und die Antwort", which premiered in a two-act version on 25 November 1766 at the Theater am Rannstädter Thore in Leipzig. Schiebeler wrote the libretto for the dramatic oratorio "Die Israeliten in der Wüste", set to music by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, which premiered on 1 November 1769 in Hamburg.