It was hailed as a masterpiece at its premiere in Vienna in 1786; it still is a masterpiece. The Marriage of Figaro was revolutionary, both musically and textually. Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte created, in effect, a new form of opera; one in which the drama was advanced in the arias and ensembles unlike the form up to that time of recitative being used to tell the story.
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