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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 176. Not illustrated. Chapters: 1780 Operas, 1781 Operas, 1782 Operas, 1783 Operas, 1784 Operas, 1785 Operas, 1786 Operas, 1787 Operas, 1788 Operas, 1789 Operas, the Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail, Idomeneo, La Fedelta Premiata, Les Danaides, Zaide, Orlando Paladino, Lo Sposo Deluso, the Padlock, Armida, Richard Coeur-De-Lion, Holger Danske, Atys, dipe a Colone, Der Rauchfangkehrer, Iphigenie En Tauride, Don Giovanni Tenorio, Der Schauspieldirektor, La Cifra, L'oca Del Cairo, Prima La Musica E Poi le Parole, La Pastorella Nobile, Didon, Il Burbero Di Buon Cuore, Fra I Due Litiganti Il Terzo Gode, Gli Equivoci, le Donne Rivali, Nina, Les Deux Petits Savoyards, La Cleopatra, Axur, Re D'ormus, Fevey, Giulio Sabino, Una Cosa Rara, Les Horaces, Inkle and Yarico, Dardanus, Tarare, La Caravane Du Caire, Colinette a La Cour, Aucassin et Nicolette, L'impresario in Angustie, Giannina E Bernardone, the Baron Kinkvervankotsdorsprakingatchdern, L'amant Statue, Il Ricco D'un Giorno, L epreuve Villageoise. Excerpt: Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata (The Marriage of Figaro, or the Day of Madness), K. 492, is an opera buffa (comic opera) in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journee, ou le Mariage de Figaro (1784). Although the play by Beaumarchais was at first banned in Vienna because of its satire of the aristocracy, considered dangerous in the decade before the French Revolution, the opera became one of Mozart's most successful works. The overture is especially famous and is often played as a concert piece. The musical material of the overture is not used later in the work, aside from two brief phrases during the Count's part in the terzetto Cosa sento! in act 1. The opera was the first of three col...
