is worth getting to know. Claudio Abbado's version with Vienna Philharmonic on DG is the one with which I'm most familiar. It was inspired by the spirit of the American and French revolutions. Lorenzo da Ponte, a defrocked priest, wrote the libretto while a fugitive just one step ahead of Venetian and Austro-Hungarian authorities, and Mozart wrote the score. Eventually, da Ponte escaped to the land of the brave and home of the free, and I like to think that Mozart would have followed him there, had he lived. Recommend you familiarize yourself with the libretto which is a critique of aristocracy.
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