Wolfgang A. Mozart Le nozze di Figaro
Opera buffa in four acts K. 492 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Text by Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749–1838) after Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais's play La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro (1778)
PREMIERE
- 21 August 1939
- 31 August 1939
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Hans Knappertsbusch, Conductor
Guido Salvini, Stage director
Alfred Roller, Sets
Willy Fränzl, Choreography
Mariano Stabile, Il Conte Almaviva
Maria Reining, La Contessa di Almaviva
Esther Réthy, Susanna
Ezio Pinza, Figaro
Gino del Signore, Don Basilio
Virgilio Lazzari, Don Bartolo
Angelica Cravcenco, Marcellina
Marta Rohs, Cherubino
Viktor Madin, Antonio
Maria Schober, Barbarina
Giuseppe Nessi, Don Curzio
Ballet of the Vienna State Opera,
Choir of the Vienna State Opera
Vienna Philharmonic