Les Noces de Figaro

Les Noces de Figaro is an opera-bouffe in four acts with music by Mozart and a libretto in four acts written in Italian by Lorenzo da Ponte and based upon Beaumarchais’s play. This work had its world premiere on 1 May 1786 at the Burgtheater of Vienna. It was billed for the first time in Paris at the Porte Saint-Martin theatre, where the Opéra presented it in a French version by F. Notaris under the title of Le Mariage de Figaro on 20 March 1793. It did not appeal to Parisians during this…