The popular comic opera in four acts The Marriage of Figaro by the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart premiered in 1786. It was first performed in the Ljubljana Opera House in 1926, and in the current season it returns to the program, this time in the translation of the libretto by Sonja Berca, with the conductor Marko Hribernik and with a new cast of roles.
Happy Day or The Marriage of Figaro, which was first performed in Vienna in 1786 with great success, is the supreme work of its era and a musical masterpiece for all time. The author of the libretto for Mozart's opera is Lorenzo da Ponte, who obtained permission for the creation from the Austrian emperor, on the condition that it would not contain anything that could harm the reputation of the theater under the patronage of his majesty. It is a libretto written according to the superb literary suggestion of the great master Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, which made Figaro a harbinger of the social changes of the later French Revolution. Mozart had no political interests and was more attracted by the elaborate story and polished characters than the substantive notes. Da Ponte is the libretto a circle of social and political references, and the characters became more cheerful.
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Mozart composed music that spins the events of a mere twelve hours into a lively and witty interweaving of various vicissitudes. Figaro and his fiancée, the servant Suzana, are planning a happy future when the Count decides to assert his right to the first night. This sets off a whole series of complications, as the Countess and Suzana join forces in a plan to bring the Count to justice.
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