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The Marriage of Figaro (Italian: Le nozze di Figaro), K. 492, is a commedia per musica (opera buffa) 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 the 1784 stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro ("The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro"). 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.

It is the music that was used in the online game, June's Museum Ballet.

Summary[]

The piece appears in the online game, June's Museum Ballet as one of the music that can be selected, but in-name only. Instead, it plays the music from Gioachino Rossini's opera, The Barber of Seville.

Structure[]

The opera is structured in four acts.

Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K. 492[]

  • Overture
  • Act 1
    1. Cinque... dieci... venti... – Susanna, Figaro
    2. Se a caso madama la notte ti chiama – Susanna, Figaro
    3. Se vuol ballare, signor Contino – Figaro
    4. La vendetta, oh la vendetta! – Bartolo
    5. Via resti servita, madama brillante – Susanna, Marcellina
    6. Non so più cosa son, cosa faccio – Cherubino
    7. Cosa sento! tosto andate – Susanna, Basilio, Count
    8. Giovani liete, fiori spargete – Chorus
    9. Non più andrai, farfallone amoroso – Figaro
  • Act 2
    1. Porgi amor qualche ristoro – Countess
    2. Voi che sapete che cosa è amor – Cherubino
    3. Venite inginocchiatevi – Susanna
    4. Susanna or via sortite – Countess, Susanna, Count
    5. Aprite presto aprite – Susanna, Cherubino
    6. Esci omai, garzon malnato – Susanna, Countess, Marcellina, Basilio, Count, Antonio, Bartolo, Figaro
  • Act 3
    1. Crudel! perché finora – Susanna, Count
    2. Hai già vinta la causa – Vedrò mentr'io sospiro – Count
    3. Riconosci in questo amplesso – Susanna, Marcellina, Don Curzio, Count, Bartolo, Figaro
    4. E Susanna non vien – Dove sono i bei momenti – Countess
    5. Canzonetta sull'aria – Susanna, Countess
    6. Ricevete, o padroncina – Farm girls
    7. Ecco la marcia, andiamo – Susanna, Countess, Count, Figaro; Chorus
  • Act 4
    1. L'ho perduta... me meschina – Barbarina
    2. Il capro e la capretta – Marcellina
    3. In quegl'anni in cui val poco – Basilio
    4. Tutto è disposto – Aprite un po' quegl'occhi – Figaro
    5. Giunse alfin il momento – Deh vieni non tardar – Susanna
    6. Pian pianin le andrò più presso – Susanna, Countess, Barbarina, Cherubino, Marcellina, Basilio, Count, Antonio, Figaro, Bartolo

Trivia[]

  • Despite being titled the Marriage of Figaro, it plays Rossini's The Barber of Seville instead on the online game, June's Museum Ballet. Whether this may be a developer's oversight it is unknown.

Allusions[]

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Classical Music List
Symphony No. 9 in E minor - "From the New World" - Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 (Morning Mood & In The Hall of the Mountain King) - Hungarian Dance No. 5 - Hungarian Dance No. 19 - Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-flat major - Carmen Suite No. 1 - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - L'Arlésienne Suite No. 2 - Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 - Für Elise - The Tale Of Tsar Saltan (Flight of the Bumblebee) - The Four Seasons - Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor - Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor - "Appassionata" - Moonlight Sonata - Symphony No. 9 in D minor (Ode to Joy) - Swan Lake Suite - Symphony No. 5 in C minor - The Blue Danube Waltz - Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major - Humoresque No. 7 - Funeral March of a Marionette - William Tell Overture - My Fatherland (The Moldau) - Symphony No. 8 - "Unfinished" - Symphony No. 40 in G minor - Suite de Symphonies No. 1 (Rondeau) - Wedding March - Aida - The Nutcracker Suite - Water Music Suite No. 1 - Trout Quintet - Wedding Day at Troldhaugen - 1812 Overture - La Marseillaise - Violin Concerto in E minor - The Firebird Suite - Symphony No. 25 in G minor - The Marriage of Figaro - Concerto Grosso - The Barber of Seville - Ride of the Valkyries - Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - Orpheus in the Underworld - Music for the Royal Fireworks - Sleeping Beauty Suite - String Quintet in E Major (Minuet) - Dance of the Hours - Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major - Arabesque No. 1 - Water Music Suite No. 2 - Arrival of the Queen of Sheba - Violin Concerto No. 4 in D minor
Music Speed and Volume
Accelerando - Adagio - Moderato - Allegro - Presto - Forte - Fortissimo - Fortiss-issimo - Fortiss-iss-issimo - Piano - Pianissimo - Pianiss-issimo - Pianiss-iss-issimo - Ritardando - Crescendo - Diminuendo
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