Back Content Count Almaviva walks on suitor’s feet. The object of his latest desire: Susanna, his wife’s chambermaid and fiancée of his valet Figaro. Shortly before the wedding, the young couple has to use all their ingenuity to avoid Susanna’s erotic advances from her aristocratic employer – turbulence is inevitable!
Based on a comedy of scandal by Beaumarchais, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his congenial librettist Lorenzo da Ponte created in their first collaboration an ensemble piece that is as rousing as it is wise to life, and whose music has lost none of its freshness to this day. Further Recommendations