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.
Francesco Palmieri (poet)
During the 1690s, he moved to Hanover. He wrote the libretto, and perhaps also the music, of a large-scale cantata ("Accademia per musica") which was performed on 1 November 1695, to celebrate the marriage of Princess Charlotte Felicitas of Brunswick-Lüneburg to Duke Rinaldo I of Modena. The score is lost, but it appears from the libretto to have comprised seventeen numbers for five characters (Clio, Gloria, Giunone, Amore and Fato). Palmieri (also known as "Count Palmieri"), wrote the libretto of "Briseide", the opera by Pietro Torri and Agostino Steffani, performed during carnival, 1696. From that yer, when Steffani was continually away on diplomatic duties, Palmieri was general manager of music at the court of Hanover.