Editing The Marriage of Figaro (section)

==Roles==
The [[voice type]]s that appear in this table are those listed in the [[Critical edition (opera)|critical edition]] published in the ''[[Neue Mozart-Ausgabe]]''.<ref name=NMA2>[http://dme.mozarteum.at/DME/objs/ed/ucb07_305_2.jpg ''Le nozze di Figaro'', p. 2], ''NMA'' II/5/16/1-2 (1973)</ref> In modern performance practice, Cherubino and Marcellina are usually assigned to [[mezzo-soprano]]s, and Figaro to a [[bass-baritone]].<ref>See {{harvnb|Robinson|1986|p=173}}; {{harvnb|Chanan|1999|p=63}}; and {{harvnb|Singher|Singher|2003|p=150}}. Mozart (and his contemporaries) never used the terms "mezzo-soprano" or "baritone" (although the NMA score lists Almaviva as {{lang|it|baritono}}. Women's roles were listed as either "[[soprano]]" or "[[contralto]]", while men's roles were listed as either "[[tenor]]" or "[[Bass (voice type)|bass]]". Many of Mozart's baritone and bass-baritone roles derive from the ''basso buffo'' tradition, where no clear distinction was drawn between bass and baritone, a practice that continued well into the 19th century. Similarly, mezzo-soprano as a distinct voice type was a 19th-century development ({{harvnb|Jander|Steane|Forbes|Harris|2001|loc=chapters "Baritone" and "Mezzo-soprano [mezzo]"}}). Modern re-classifications of the voice types for Mozartian roles have been based on analysis of contemporary descriptions of the singers who created those roles and their other repertoire, and on the role's [[tessitura]] in the score.</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+{{sronly|Roles, voice types, and premiere cast}}
!Role<ref name=NMA2 />
![[Voice type]]
!Premiere cast, 1 May 1786<br />[[Conducting|Conductor]]: W. A. Mozart<ref>{{cite book|last=Angermüller|first=Rudolph|author-link=Rudolph Angermüller|title=Mozart's Operas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R4hPAAAAMAAJ|date=1 November 1988|publisher=Rizzoli|isbn=9780847809936|page=137}}</ref>
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|Count Almaviva||[[baritone]]<!-- A rare case where the NMA score uses 'baritono'. -->||[[Stefano Mandini]]
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|Countess Rosina Almaviva||[[soprano]]||[[Luisa Laschi]]
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|Susanna, ''the countess's maid''||soprano||[[Nancy Storace]]
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|Figaro, ''personal [[valet]] to the count''||[[Bass (voice type)|bass]]||[[Francesco Benucci]]
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|Cherubino, ''the count's [[Page (servant)|page]]''||soprano ([[breeches role]])||{{ill|Dorotea Bussani|it}}
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|Marcellina, ''Doctor Bartolo's housekeeper'' ||soprano||{{ill|Maria Mandini|sv}}
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|Bartolo, ''doctor from Seville, also a practicing lawyer''||bass||{{ill|Francesco Bussani|it}}
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|Basilio, ''music teacher''||[[tenor]]||[[Michael Kelly (tenor)|Michael Kelly]]
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|Don Curzio, ''judge''||tenor||[[Michael Kelly (tenor)|Michael Kelly]]
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|Barbarina, ''Antonio's daughter, Susanna's cousin''||soprano||[[Anna Gottlieb]]
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|Antonio, ''the count's gardener, Susanna's uncle''||bass||{{ill|Francesco Bussani|it}}
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|colspan="3"|[[Choir|Chorus]] of peasants, villagers, and servants
|}