A Note on Opera: Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro”

Join us for our latest lecture in our “A Note on
Opera” series.

Few opera librettists would be remembered in their own right
were it not for their association with opera. One striking exception, however,
is Mozart’s librettist for “Le nozze di Figaro,” “Don Giovanni,” and “Così fan
tutte”: Lorenzo da Ponte. His first collaboration with Mozart was “Le nozze di
Figaro,” itself an adaptation of French playwright Pierre de Beaumarchais’s
incendiary “Le Mariage de Figaro.”