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.
Adolphe Deloffre
As principal conductor at the Théâtre-Lyrique he conducted an important series of revivals of Mozart operas, starting with "The Marriage of Figaro" (as "Les noces de Figaro") in May 1858 (he also conducted the premiere at the Opéra-Comique in 1872), then in May 1859 "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" (as "L’Enlèvement au Sérail"), "Così fan tutte" (as "Peines d’Amours perdues") in March 1863, "The Magic Flute" (as "La flute enchantée") in February 1865, and "Don Giovanni" (as "Don Juan" in a translation by Henri Trianon) in 1866.