The Marriage of Figaro

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The Marriage of Figaro, 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's one of Mozart's funniest operas, inspired by Beaumarchais's play, with legendary voices like Hermann Prey and Mirella Freni, and delicious stage direction by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. The great conductor and Mozart expert Karl Böhm conducts this essential version. It tells the story of how 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.

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