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The Marriage of Figaro (Italian: Le nozze di Figaro, pronounced [le ˈnɔttse di ˈfiːɡaro] ⓘ), K. 492, is a commedia per musica (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte.
The scene changes to the trial over Marcellina's loan. With the Count presiding, she and Bartolo present the contract. But Figaro says he can't marry someone without his parents’ permission. The Count says let's see these parents, and Figaro replies that he has been looking for them for ten years.
At the lawsuit that follows the Count maintains that Figaro has to marry Marcellina, but Figaro maintains that he cannot get married without his parents’ consent. He doesn’t know who his parents are because he was kidnapped from them when he was a baby.
The valet Figaro has been pursued from the start of opera by the housekeeper Marcellina, whom he has agreed to marry if he can't repay a longstanding debt. Marcellina has chosen the day of Figaro's wedding to his fiancée Susanna to stake her claim, encouraged by Figaro’s old enemy, Bartolo, and Figaro's master, Count Almaviva, who wants to ...
Mar 18, 2011 · When they produce evidence that Figaro has actually agreed to marry Marcellina, the Count gleefully cancels the wedding. As ACT THREE begins, Susanna hatches her latest scheme.
Jul 1, 2020 · With the help of the Countess, who has been neglected by her philandering husband, Figaro and Susanna must use all their imagination to outsmart Almaviva, avoid the traps laid by Marcellina, Bartolo and Basilio, and take advantage of Cherubino's awkward attempts at romance.
Figaro, seeking a pretext, claims that he does not have his parent’s permission to marry since he was stolen when he was a kid, but that he has a mark in his arm that would identify him. Marcellina is moved and recognizes in Figaro the child that Doctor Bartolo had, who was stolen by gypsies.
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