Mozart’s opera ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ premiered in Vienna 240 years ago this hour (May 1 1786)


Video: 'Le Nozze Di Figaro (Eng. Subtitles)'

(Monday May 1, 1786, 6:30 p.m. local time)The Marriage of Figaro, an opera buffa (comic opera) in four acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte, premiered today at the Burgtheater in Vienna.