Mozart delighted in portraying themes dealing with ideas inspired by the Enlightenment: he lived and composed during the social upheavals and ideological transitions of the late eighteenth century that would lead to the French Revolution and the demise of the ancien régime. In particular, *The Marriage of Figaro*, an opera buffa, contains all of the era’s social and political overtones: it portrays servants who are cleverer than their selfish, unscrupulous, and arrogant masters. Napoleon would later conclude that *Marriage*, both the Mozart and source Beaumarchais play, represented the Revolution in action ... *Così fan tutte* (1789) (“Thus do all women behave”), another blend of the opera seria with the opera buffa for which nothing could be more praiseful than the musicologist William Mann’s conclusion that *Così fan tutte* contains the most captivating music ever composed. https://youtube/watch?v=8OUrafVroho
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