Amadeus The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Le Nozze Di Figaro: Libretto, Background and Photos, (Paperback)

<p>Today Mozart's exquisite <i>Le Nozze di Figaro</i> delights and moves audiences everywhere, long after its 1786 birth into tumultuous times. The original Beaumarchais play raised a firestorm in France, then on the brink of revolution, with its dangerous commentary on class relations. However, Lorenzo Da Ponte carefully omitted anything political from his opera libretto; what remained, when joined with Mozart's sublime and penetrating music, was a witty yet profound tale of infatuation, heartache, scheming, and tenderness, where complex emotions are laid bare and everyone, regardless of class, is equally vulnerable to the powers of love. </p><p>Figaro continues the story of <i>The Barber of Seville</i> several years later, in a single "day of madness." Count Almaviva's love, Rosina, is now his long-suffering countess, and the barber Figaro, now the count's valet, is about to marry Susanna, the countess's maid. But the couple-to-be must first deal with two obstacles: a demand that Figaro pay his debt to an older woman or marry her instead, and the count's determination to bed Susanna on her wedding night. </p><p>Suspicions fly, plots are hatched, narrow escapes abound, and connivers receive their due. Love and forgiveness finally bring order to the craziness, and a day filled with torment and worry ends in joy.</p>

• Amadeus The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Le Nozze Di Figaro: Libretto, Background and Photos, (Paperback)
• Author: Amadeus
• ISBN: 9781574674613
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2014-08-01
• Page Count: 296