Mozart's operas

Mozart's operas / Daniel Heartz ; edited, with contributing essays, by Thomas Bauman.

Renowned Mozart scholar Daniel Heartz brings his deep knowledge of social history, theater, and art to a study of the last decade of Mozart's operas. Mozart specialists will recognize some of Heartz's best-known essays here; but six pieces are new for the collection, and others have been r...

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Autore principale: Heartz, Daniel
Altri autori: Bauman, Thomas, 1948-
Natura: Libro
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1990]
Serie:Centennial Books
Soggetti:
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, > 1756-1791. > Operas.
Opera.
Sommario:
  • Sacrifice dramas
  • The genesis of Idomeneo
  • Mozart's tragic muse
  • Coming of age in Vienna : Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail
  • The poet as stage director : Metastasio, Goldoni, and Da Ponte
  • From Beaumarchais to Da Ponte : the metamorphosis of Figaro
  • Setting the stage for Figaro
  • Constructing Le nozze di Figaro
  • Don Giovanni : conception and creation
  • An iconography of the dances in the ballroom scene of Don Giovanni
  • Goldoni, Don Giovanni, and the Dramma Giocoso
  • Donna Elvira and the great sextet
  • Three schools for lovers, or "Cosi fan tutte le belle"
  • Citation, reference, and recall in Cosi fan tutte
  • La Clemenza di Sarastro : masonic beneficence in the last operas
  • At the north gate : instrumental music in Die Zauberflote
  • Mozart and his Italian contemporaries
  • The overture to La clemeza di Tito as dramatic argument.

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