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When Giuseppe Verdi was looking for source material for what would be his last opera, he made what might be considered an odd choice: a farcical, episodic play, written almost entirely in prose, about ordinary citizens in sixteenth-century England called The Merry...

Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) is often hailed as the greatest comic opera (Opera Buffa) ever written. Certainly it stands at the very head of Mozart’s great triumvirate of operas set to libretti by the Italian (and later Italian-American) poet,...