Author: Library of Congress. Music DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Librettos
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800
Author: Library of Congress. Music DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Librettos
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800
Author: Library of Congress. Music DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1184
Book Description
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.
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.
Dictionary-catalogue of Operas and Operettas which Have Been Performed on the Public Stage
Author: John TowersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Musicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
Book Description
Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800
Author: Oscar George Theodore SonneckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
La Bella Pescatrice. A comic opera of one act [by S. Zini], as represented at the King's Theatre, Haymarket. With many additions and alterations by D. Ponte ... The translation by J. Mazzinghi. Ital. & Eng
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Author: La Vendemmia. A new comic opera in two acts [by Giovanni Bertati], as performed at the King's Theatre, etc. (A Correct List of the Subscribers to the Boxes ... 1789.) Ital. & Eng
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Author: Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur
Author: Opera Librettists and Their Works
Author: Charles H. ParsonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Librettists
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description