1-148-765 - Ann Ronan Picture Library/Heritage-Images

Scene from Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro, 1786, (c1914). The Marriage of Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro), a comic opera (opera buffa) with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte (1749-1838) after Beaumarchais, first performed on l May 1786 at the Burgtheater, Vienna. Susanna, maid to Countess Almaviva, is telling the page Cherubino to leave when they hear voices approaching. Instead he hides in the chair, covered by a drape, only to be exposed by the Count. From A Day With Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by May Byron. (London, c1914).