Tchaikovsky liked Figaro very much and went to hear it at least three times during his stay in Paris in 1883.
In 1875, Tchaikovsky translated the libretto of Le Nozze di Figaro into Russian for a student performance at the Moscow Conservatory, and this translation was eventually published by Jurgenson in 1884, together with the vocal-piano reduction of the opera (see TH 188). Tchaikovsky liked Figaro very much and went to hear it at least three times during his stay in Paris in 1883. In a letter to Sergey Taneyev, who was also an admirer of Mozart, he recorded his impressions of one of these performances: "My God! how divinely beautiful this music is in its unassuming simplicity!" [5]