FIGARA WEDDING

There are many reasons to consider Mozart as one of the greatest composers in history. Symphonies, piano concertos, string quartets, piano sonatas, violin concertos and, perhaps most of all, operas. This species accompanied him all his life. He wrote his first stage works as a teenager, the last operas a dozen weeks before his death. The Marriage of Figaro — a timeless hit of opera scenes — was composed by Mozart in 1786. The title was controversial even before the work hit the theater. A frivolous comedy full of dress-ups and romances disturbed the emperor. Today it is difficult to decide who finally convinced Joseph II that the opera could be staged, but this no longer matters much. The story of the vicissitudes of Figaro, who is to be conceived as his wife Susanna, but before they step on the bridal shower, a lot must happen, was already a stunning success at its premiere in Vienna. There was no end to the bisom, and in the following months and years Mozart's masterpiece was heard by audiences in Prague, Florence, Leipzig and Frankfurt. There would not be all these splendors if it were not for the great music, as well as the heroes of blood and bones. Longing for true affection, bored with current partners, doubting their fidelity or getting lost in planned intrigues and discovering that what they have is really a lot already. Psychological truth combined with music brilliant from the first bars of the overture has created an immortal opera in which it is worth getting lost in order to find the most important thing.

photo: Igor Andruch