The entire action of Mozart's life-enhancing opera takes place within a single day; a day of madness as the subtitle of the original text describes it. Figaro and Susanna?s determination to marry enrages their
master, the Count, reducing him to a state of lustful frustration, disregarding his wife, the Countess, who is left to suff er the miseries of unrequited love. In a breathless circle of plots and counter-plots,
the Count pursues Susanna, the young and hormonally volcanic Cherubino pursues anything in a skirt and the scheming pair of Bartolo and Marcellina come close to upsetting Figaro?s plans but are caught in
a web of their own devising.
