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It was this long awaited, wildly received French opening and its accompanying publicity that attracted Italian-born librettist Lorenzo da Ponte and composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to the piece. They knew that the play, itself, could not be given in Vienna, but they thought that a somewhat expurgated opera on the subject would be permitted and was likely to attract untold numbers of ticket buyers. Thus, on 1 May 1786, their work, Le nozze di Figaro, began a successful run of performances that attracted a much wider audience than that which was usually found in the opera house.

On 11 May 2007, San Diego Opera presented this two-century-old masterpiece at the Civic Theater in a traditional production by Linda Brodsky with exquisitely detailed sets and costumes by Zack Brown.

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