Le nozze di Figaro

Opera: Work details

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
Productions
The Marriage of Figaro (1949) Covent Garden Opera Company (23 performances online)
Le nozze di Figaro (1963) Covent Garden Opera Company (13 performances online)
Le nozze di Figaro (1971) The Royal Opera (8 performances online)
Le nozze di Figaro (1987) The Royal Opera (29 performances online)
Le nozze di Figaro (1998) The Royal Opera (1 performance online)
Le nozze di Figaro (2006) The Royal Opera (82 performances online)

Performances not linked to a production
21 July 2019 Matinee 1.30pm Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London