Short answers, pulled from the story.
Ben Jonson wrote Volpone to premiere at the Globe Theatre during the spring of 1606. The King's Men performed this production in London before an outbreak of plague closed theatres later that summer.
Volpone stands as a greedy Venetian magnifico who pretends to be dying while his servant Mosca acts as a fly feeding off decay. Voltore appears as a vulture, Corbaccio arrives as a raven, Corvino enters as a carrion crow, and Lady Would-Be plays the role of a parrot.
Disguised as Scoto the Mountebank, Volpone attempts to seduce Celia the wife of Corvino and then tries to rape her when that fails. Bonario comes forward to rescue Celia from the assault but false evidence presented by Voltore buries the truth under lies provided by Mosca.
The play remained out of use until it was revived by the Phoenix Society at the Lyric Hammersmith in 1921. W. B. Yeats attended this production and mentioned it approvingly in a letter to Allan Wade before the Birmingham Repertory Theatre staged it in 1935.
John Musto's score premiered on the 10th of March 2004 at The Barns and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording in 2010. Ian McDiarmid starred as Volpone in a BBC Radio 3 production on the 24th of March 2004 while George Antheil used a script for his 1953 opera titled Volpone.