Author: Dorothea LinkPublisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 0895795167
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
xxv + 122 pp.
Arias for Nancy Storace
Author: Dorothea LinkPublisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 0895795167
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
xxv + 122 pp.
The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna
Author: Mary HunterPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400822750
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Mozart's comic operas are among the masterworks of Western civilization, and yet the musical environment in which Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte wrote these now-popular operas has received little critical attention. In this richly detailed book, Mary Hunter offers a sweeping, synthetic view of opera buffa in the lively theatrical world of late-eighteenth-century Vienna. Opera buffa (Italian-language comic opera) persistently entertained audiences at a time when Joseph was striving for a German national theater. Hunter attributes opera buffa's success to its ability to provide "sheer" pleasure and hence explores how the genre functioned as entertainment. She argues that opera buffa, like mainstream film today, projects a social world both recognizable and distinct from reality. It raises important issues while containing them in the "merely entertaining" frame of the occasion, as well as presenting them as a series of easily identifiable dramatic and musical conventions. Exploring nearly eighty comic operas, Hunter shows how the arias and ensembles convey a multifaceted picture of the repertory's social values and habits. In a concluding chapter, she discusses Cos" fan tutte as a work profoundly concerned with the conventions of its repertory and with the larger idea of convention itself and reveals the ways Mozart and da Ponte pointedly converse with their immediate contemporaries.
Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera
Author: John A. RicePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226711256
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Publisher Description
The Italian Opera Singers in Mozart's Vienna
Author: Dorothea LinkPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252053656
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Dorothea Link examines singers’ voices and casting practices in late eighteenth-century Italian opera as exemplified in Vienna’s court opera from 1783 to 1791. The investigation into the singers’ voices proceeds on two levels: understanding the performers in terms of the vocal-dramatic categories employed in opera at the time; and creating vocal profiles for the principal singers from the music composed expressly for them. In addition, Link contextualizes the singers within the company in order to expose the court opera's casting practices. Authoritative and insightful, The Italian Opera Singers in Mozart's Vienna offers a singular look at a musical milieu and a key to addressing the performance-practice problem of how to cast the Mozart roles today.
Index to the catalogue of books in the upper hall
Author: Boston Mass, publ. librPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
Index to the Catalogue of Books in the Bates Hall of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: W. A. Mozart: Così Fan Tutte
Author: Bruce Alan BrownPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521437356
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
At once the most light-hearted and disturbing of Mozart and Da Ponte's Italian comic works, the opera has provoked widely differing reactions from listeners for more than two centuries. This study provides a detailed account of the libretto's complex origins in myth and Italian literary classics.
The Musical World
Author: Mozart Studies 2
Author: Simon P. KeefePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107044235
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Essays by leading Mozart scholars explore the composer's popular works, biography and reception, appealing to scholars and Mozart-lovers alike.
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven
Author: Alexander Wheelock ThayerPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732628752
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.