The Marriage of Figaro: Quick Facts

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The house in Vienna where Mozart and his family lived during 1784–87; known as Figarohaus, it is where he composed his opera The Marriage of Figaro.

Illustration from The Marriage of Figaro showing Susanna gesturing toward the door as Cherubino, dressed in period clothing, hides inside a large wooden wardrobe in a sunlit room.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart rehearsing his 12th Mass with singer and musician. (Austrian composer. (Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

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