Is Le Nozze di Figaro good?
Is Le Nozze di Figaro good? Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro appears on most opera lovers' top 10 lists. For its fine balance of humour, pathos, theatre, satire and, of course, amazing music, some people call it the perfect opera. Why was Le Nozze di Figaro banned? The Beaumarchais play from which it drew inspiration had been banned in Paris for its volatile political content, considered dangerous in pre-Revolutionary France. Austria's Emperor Joseph II, elder brother to the embattled French queen, adopted the same prohibition in his own realm. What is Beaumarchais Le Nozze di Figaro about? The Marriage of...