Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Der Schauspieldirektor ("The Impresario"), K. 486, is a comic German singspiel that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote as his entry in a musical competition sponsored by the Austrian court. Another entry was an Italian opera by Antonio Salieri. Mozart's opera was first performed on February 7, 1786 in Vienna. The plot mainly concerns the woes of an impresario as he deals with a troupe of performers, especially the feisty divas. It has been noted that the character and scale of the overture are similar to those of the overture to Le Nozze di Figaro. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.