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Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) is a comic opera composed in four acts by Mozart. The opera is a continuation of the plot of The Barber of Seville several years later and recounts a sing day of madness in the palace of the Count Almnaviva near Seville, Spain. Giuseppe Taddei stars as Figaro with Carlo Maria Giulini directing the Philharmonia Orchestra.