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DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mozart’s Opera Marriage of Figaro, containing the Italian text, with an English translation, and the Music of all of the Principal Airs [1786]

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Mozart’s Opera Marriage of Figaro, containing the Italian text, with an English translation, and the Music of all of the Principal Airs (Boston: Oliver Ditson Co., 1888).

Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Author: Lorenzo Da Ponte
Author: Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

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Dramatis PersonÆ.
Argument.
Le Nozze Di Figaro. (the Marriage of Figaro.)
Atto I.
Act I.
Scena I.—
Scene I.—
Scena II.—
Scene II.—
Atto Ii
Act II.
Scena I.—
Scene I.—
Scena II.—
Scene II.—
Scena III.—
Scene III.—
Scena IV.—
Scene IV.—

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.

COUNT ALMAVIVA. Grand Corregidor of Andalusia.	BARITONE.
FIGARO. His valet-de-chambre, and major-domo of the chateau.	BASS.
DOCTOR BARTOLO. A Physician of Seville.	BASS.
DON BASILIO. Music-master to the Countess.	TENOR.
CHERUBINO. The Count’s head-page.	SOPRANO.
ANTONIO. Gardener to the Chateau, uncle to Susanna, and father to Barbarina.	BASS.
DON CURZIO. Counsellor-at-law.	TENOR.
COUNTESS ALMAVIVA.	SOPRANO.
SUSANNA. Her head waiting-woman, affianced to Figaro.	SOPRANO.
MARCELLINA. A duenna.	SOPRANO.
BARBARINA. Daughter of Antonio.	SOPRANO.

Peasants, male and female; Officers of Court, Valets, Bravos, &c. &c.

the scene is laid at the chateau of agnas frescas, three leagues from seville.

first performed at vienna, in 1786