La cosa e scabrosa: Das Ereignis ‘Figaro’ und die Wiener Opernpraxis der Mozartzeit

La cosa e scabrosa - The matter is tricky! Know the countess, Susanna and Figaro when they thread the game of confusion for the count, which is supposed to end happily according to theater custom. This game of confusion and confusion is the breeding ground for amusement in the opera buffa Le nozze di Figaro by Lorenzo da Ponte and Wolfgang Amade Mozart. The fact that such pleasure could take place on the Viennese opera stage in 1786 is based not least on the fact that the audience was familiar with the conventions of opera buffa, the people acting on and behind the stage and the intertextual allusions hidden in the libretto and music. These connections around the Figaro 1786 event are re-examined in this anthology: in the synopsis of what the Viennese audience experienced and fascinated at that time, which discourses were virulent and which actors were on and behind the stages.