Scene from Mozart's opera 'The Marriage of Figaro'. (Le Nozze di Figaro), comic opera (opera buffa) with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte (1749-1838) after Beaumarchais, first performed on l May 1786 at the Burgtheater, Vienna. Susanna, maid to Countess Almaviva telling the page Cherubino to leave when they hear voices approaching. Instead he will hide in the chair, covered by a drape, only to be exposed by the Count. From 'A Day With Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart' by May Byron. (London, c1914).

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