Composer: |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Music title: |
Le nozze di Figaro, K 492 |
Librettist: |
Lorenzo da Ponte |
Work definition: |
Opera buffa in four acts |
Title notes: |
Also known as 'The Marriage of Figaro' |
After: |
After the play 'La folle journée, ou Le mariage de Figaro' by Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais |
Language: |
Italian |
World premiere: |
1 May 1786, Burgtheater, Vienna |
ROH premiere: |
6 March 1819, Henry Harris and John Philip Kemble Opera Company |
ROH company premiere: |
22 January 1949, Covent Garden Opera Company, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London |