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==Synopsis==

==Synopsis==

The plot of ''The Marriage of Figaro'' takes place after the events of Rossini's opera ''The Barber of Seville'', although Mozart's opera was written 30 years earlier. There was, however, an earlier opera based on Beaumarchais' ''Barber'' written by the Italian composer Giovanni Paisiello, and its Viennese performance in 1782 would have surely contributed to Mozart and da Ponte's interest in writing a sequel once Beaumarchais had written his sequel two years later.

The plot of ''The Marriage of Figaro'' takes place in Count Almaviva's palace in Seville, [[Spain]] after the events of Rossini's opera ''The Barber of Seville'', although Mozart's opera was written 30 years earlier. There was, however, an earlier opera based on Beaumarchais' ''Barber'' written by the Italian composer Giovanni Paisiello, and its Viennese performance in 1782 would have surely contributed to Mozart and da Ponte's interest in writing a sequel once Beaumarchais had written his sequel two years later.

===Act I===

===Act I===

As the curtain rises, Figaro is measuring his new apartment while he and Susanna warmly anticipate their coming marriage. Susanna tells Figaro that his boss Count Almaviva has made advances at her, and wishes to reinstate the "feudal right" of noblemen to bed maidens before their wedding night. Figaro vows to beat Almaviva at his own game and departs.

As the curtain rises, Figaro is measuring his new apartment while he and Susanna warmly anticipate their coming marriage. Susanna tells Figaro that his boss Count Almaviva has made advances at her, and wishes to reinstate the "feudal right" of noblemen to bed maidens before their wedding night. Figaro vows to beat Almaviva at his own game and departs.