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.
Vito Frazzi
Frazzi composed symphonic, choral and chamber music, and a number of operas. "Re Lear" was written between 1922 and 1928, but not performed until 1939; it is loosely based on Shakespeare's "King Lear". "Don Chisciotte", to Frazzi's own libretto derived from the "Don Quijote" of Cervantes and the "Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho" of Miguel de Unamuno, was composed between 1940 and 1950 and received its première at the Teatro Comunale of Florence on 28 April 1952. It consists of six scenes which may be performed either separately or together; a supplement to it, "Le nozze di Camaccio" ("the marriage of Camaccio"), though published, has apparently not been performed. Frazzi destroyed the score of his opera "L’ottava moglie di Barbablù" ("Bluebeard's eighth wife") after its première at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence in January 1940; the work is unpublished.