What is the name of Mozart’s first opera?



He spent the years from 1766 to 1769 at Salzburg writing instrumental works and music for school dramas in German and Latin, and in 1768 he produced his first real operas: the German Singspiel (that is, with spoken dialogue) Bastien und Bastienne.

What was Mozart’s opera called?

List of operas

Period Title Libretto
Language
1785–86 Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) Italian
1787 Don Giovanni Italian
1789–90 Così fan tutte (Women are like that or All women do that) Italian

What is Mozart’s most famous opera?

The Marriage of Figaro





Written just five years before his untimely death, The Marriage of Figaro is one of Mozart’s most successful operas to this day. The opera itself is filled with recognisable music, but there is none quite so well known as the Overture.

What was the first opera name?

Enter Jacopo Peri (1561–1633), who composed Dafne (1597), which many consider to be the first opera.

What are the names of 3 of Mozart’s operas?

Three of Mozart’s most famous operas fall into this category, including The Marriage of Figaro, Così fan tutte and Don Giovanni. Singspiel is a German-language operatic style which consisted of sung arias with spoken dialogue in between. (In Italian opera, the dialogue between arias was sung.)

What was Mozart’s first opera about?

He spent the years from 1766 to 1769 at Salzburg writing instrumental works and music for school dramas in German and Latin, and in 1768 he produced his first real operas: the German Singspiel (that is, with spoken dialogue) Bastien und Bastienne.
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