Non più andrai
"" (You shall go no more) is an aria for bass from Mozart's 1786 opera "The Marriage of Figaro", K. 492. The Italian libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, "La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro" (1784). It is sung by Figaro at the end of the first act.
Lorenzo Da Ponte
With the help of Salieri, Da Ponte applied for and obtained the post of librettist to the Italian Theatre in Vienna. Here he also found a patron in the banker Raimund Wetzlar von Plankenstern, benefactor of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. As court poet and librettist in Vienna, he collaborated with Mozart, Salieri and Vicente Martín y Soler. Da Ponte wrote the libretti for Mozart's most popular Italian operas, "The Marriage of Figaro" (1786), "Don Giovanni" (1787), and "Così fan tutte" (1790), and Soler's "Una cosa rara", as well as the text on which the cantata "Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia" (collaboratively composed in 1785 by Salieri, Mozart and Cornetti) is based. All of Da Ponte's works were adaptations of pre-existing plots, as was common among librettists of the time, with the exceptions of "L'arbore di Diana" with Soler, and "Così fan tutte", which he began with Salieri, but completed with Mozart. However the quality of his elaboration gave them new life.