Mozart / Erich Kleiber, 1955: Overture to the Marriage of Figaro -- Original Decca LP

Recorded June 21-27, 1955, Sofiensaal, Vienna. Erich Kleiber leads the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Digitized from the LP shown above. issued in 1959 on the Decca label. Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata (The Marriage of Figaro, or The Day of Madness), K. 492, is an opera buffa (comic opera) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figar