Mozart & the French Revolution

Mozart composes Le Nozze di Figaro in 1786 and Don Giovanni in 1787, and the French Revolution starts in 1789. But the atmosphere is the same, and these two operas anticipate what was about to happen in 1789. The social tension is felt, starting with the attacco when Figaro, who is in the service of Count Almaviva, intones the famous verse “se vuol ballare signor contino il chitarrino le suoneró” which means "I will kick you in the back", and continuing in Don Giovanni where this becomes explicit in the party where all the social classes mingle on the stage and Don Giovanni himself invites everyone to enter saying: “venite avanti vezzose mascherette é aperto a tutti quanti viva la libertá” ("come forward, charming little masks, it is open to everyone,long live freedom”).

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