Don Giovanni

Author : Richard Will
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226815428

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Don Giovanni Captured by Richard Will Pdf

“Don Giovanni” Captured considers the life of a single opera, engaging with the entire history of its recorded performance. Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni has long inspired myths about eros and masculinity. Over time, its performance history has revealed a growing trend toward critique—an increasing effort on the part of performers and directors to highlight the violence and predatoriness of the libertine central character, alongside the suffering and resilience of his female victims. In “Don Giovanni” Captured, Richard Will sets out to analyze more than a century’s worth of recorded performances of the opera, tracing the ways it has changed from one performance to another and from one generation to the next. Will consults audio recordings, starting with wax cylinders and 78s, as well as video recordings, including DVDs, films, and streaming videos. As Will argues, recordings and other media shape our experience of opera as much as live performance does. Seen as a historical record, opera recordings are also a potent reminder of the refusal of works such as Don Giovanni to sit still. By choosing a work with such a rich and complex tradition of interpretation, Will helps us see Don Giovanni as a standard-bearer for evolving ideas about desire and power, both on and off the stage.

Author : Magnus Tessing Schneider
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000510539

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The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni by Magnus Tessing Schneider Pdf

The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni offers an original reading of Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s opera Don Giovanni, using as a lens the portrayal of the title role by its creator, the baritone Luigi Bassi (1766–1825). Although Bassi was coached in the role by the composer himself, his portrayal has never been studied in depth before, and this book presents a large number of new sources (first- and second-hand accounts), which allows us to reconstruct his performance scene by scene. The book confronts Bassi’s portrayal with a study of the opera’s early German reception and performance history, demonstrating how Don Giovanni as we know it today was not only created by Mozart, Da Ponte and Luigi Bassi but also by the early German adapters, translators, critics and performers who turned the title character into the arrogant and violent villain we still encounter in most of today’s stage productions. Incorporating discussion of dramaturgical thinking of the late Enlightenment and the difficult moral problems that the opera raises, this is an important study for scholars and researchers from opera studies, theatre and performance studies, music history as well as conductors, directors and singers.

Author : Lydia Goehr,Daniel Herwitz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231510646

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The Don Giovanni Moment by Lydia Goehr,Daniel Herwitz Pdf

Mozart's Don Giovanni is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions that still resonate today. The work redefines the terms of power, seduction, and morality, and the resulting conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment and romanticism. The Don Giovanni Moment is the first book to examine the aesthetic and moral legacy of Mozart's opera in the literature, philosophy, and culture of the nineteenth century. The prominent scholars in this collection address the opera's impact on the philosophical visions of Kierkegaard, Goethe, and Williams and its influence on the literary and dramatic works of Pushkin, Hoffmann, Mörike, Byron, Wagner, Strauss, and Shaw. Through a close and careful analysis of Don Giovanni's literary and philosophical reception and its many appropriations, rewritings, and retellings, these contributors treat the opera as a vantage point from which theory and philosophy can reconsider romanticism's central themes. As lively and passionate as the opera itself, these essays continue the spirited debate over the meaning and character of Don Giovanni and its powerful legacy. Together they prove that Mozart's brilliant artistic achievement is as potent and relevant today as when it was first performed two centuries ago.

Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,Lorenzo Da Ponte
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Operas
ISBN : 9781930841840

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Mozart's Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,Lorenzo Da Ponte Pdf

A complete, newly translated libretto featuring foreign/English translation side-by-side, plus music examples.

Author : Jonathan Miller
Publisher : Schocken Books Incorporated
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015024806617

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Don Giovanni by Jonathan Miller Pdf

"A very powerful book. The final chapter, in particular, is one of the most provocative political-theoretical statements that I have read in a long time."--Bill Martin, Radical Philosophy Review of Books."An impressive sequel to Marxism and Deconstruction

Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Operas
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038232141

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Don Giovanni (Don Juan) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Pdf

Author : Julian Rushton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1981-10-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521296633

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W. A. Mozart: Don Giovanni by Julian Rushton Pdf

A study of Mozart's Don Giovanni, one of the best known and most often performed opears of the last 200 years.

Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780714545295

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Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Pdf

These Opera Guides are ideal com-panions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original.This famous opera ends, after the hero is dragged down to hell, with a warning that evil shall not go unpunished. 'Hardly', as Michael F. Robinson notes, 'one's usual idea of a "e;comic"e; subject!' So this guide opens with a brief look at what is actually comic about it. David Wyn Jones gives an overall view of the score: he shows how the musical keys are arranged so that the dramatic momentum over two long acts is maintained and discusses orchestration and dramatic pacing in the most important scenes. Christopher Raeburn contributes a lively portrait of the 'libertine librettist' who, after his Vienna triumphs, was hounded out of London for his debts and eventually died in New York - 'revered as the father of Italian studies in America'. The full original text is given, with a pointed modern translation.

Author : Burton, Fisher D. Publishing Staff
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780967397337

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Don Giovanni by Burton, Fisher D. Publishing Staff Pdf

Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,Lorenzo Da Ponte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Operas
ISBN : UVA:X004564225

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Mozart's Opera Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,Lorenzo Da Ponte Pdf

Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780977132010

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Mozart's Don Giovanni by Burton D. Fisher Pdf

A comprehensive guide to Mozart's DON GIOVANNI, featuring insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis, a complete, newly translated Libretto with Italian/English side-by side, and over 30 music highlight examples.

Author : Ian Woodfield
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781843835868

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The Vienna Don Giovanni by Ian Woodfield Pdf

Aspects of Don Giovanni's compositional history are uncovered and the study provides for detailed evidence with which to evaluate Da Ponte's recollections. The essential truth of his account - that the revision of the operain Vienna was an interactive process - seems to be fully borne out. A general theory of transmission is proposed, which clarifies the relationship between the fluid text produced by re-creation and the static text generated by replication. In the year following its 1787 Prague première, Don Giovanni was performed in Vienna. Everyone, according to the well-known account by Da Ponte, thought something was wrong with it. In response, Mozart made changes, producing a Vienna 'version' of the opera, cutting two of the original arias but inserting three newly-composed pieces. The dilemma faced by musicians and scholars ever since has been whether to preserve the opera in these two 'authentic' forms, or whether to fashion a hybrid text incorporating the best of both. This study presents new evidence about the Vienna form of the opera, based on the examination of late eighteenth-century manuscript copies. The Prague Conservatory score is identified as the primary exemplar for the Viennese dissemination of Don Giovanni, which is shown to incorporate two quite distinct versions, represented by the performing materials in Vienna [O.A.361] and the early Lausch commercial copy in Florence. To account for this phenomenon, seen also in early sources of the Prague Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte, a general theory of transmission for the Mozart Da Ponte operas is proposed, which clarifies the relationship between the fluid text produced by re-creation (performing) and the static text generated by replication (copying). Aspects of the compositional history of Don Giovanni are uncovered. Evidence to suggest that Mozart first considered an order in which Donna Elvira's scena precedes the comic duet 'Per queste tue manine' is assessed. The essential truth of Da Ponte's account - that the revision of the opera in Vienna was an interactive process, involving the views of performers, the reactions of audiences and the composer's responses - seems to be fully borne out. The final part of the study investigates the late eighteenth-century transmission of Don Giovanni. The idea that hybrid versions gained currency only in the nineteenth century or in the lighter Singspiel tradition is challenged. IAN WOODFIELD is Professorand Director of Research at the School of Music and Sonic Arts, Queen's University Belfast.

Author : Lydia Goehr,Daniel Alan Herwitz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231137546

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The Don Giovanni Moment by Lydia Goehr,Daniel Alan Herwitz Pdf

'The Don Giovanni Movement' examines the aesthetic and moral legacy of Mozart's operatic masterpiece in the literature, philosophy, and culture of the nineteenth century. Deeply rooted in the enlightenment and romanticism, the opera functions as icon andmyth, and its tensions still resonate today.

Author : Dr Charles Ford
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781409495437

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Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart's Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte by Dr Charles Ford Pdf

Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment explains how Mozart's music for Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte 'sounds' the intentions of Da Ponte's characters and their relationships with one another. Mozart, by way of the infinitely generative and beautiful logic of the sonata principle, did not merely interpret Da Ponte's characterizations but lent them temporal, musical forms. Charles Ford's analytic interpretation of these musical forms concerns processes and structures in detail and at medium- to long-term levels. He addresses the music of a wide range of arias and ensembles, and develops original ways to interpret the two largely overlooked operatic genres of secco recitative and finales. Moreover, Ford presents a new method by which to relate musical details directly to philosophical concepts, and thereby, the music of the operas to the inwardly contradictory thinking of the European Enlightenment. This involves close readings of late eighteenth-century understandings of 'man' and nature, self and other, morality and transgression, and gendered identities and sexuality, with particular reference to contemporary writers, especially Goethe, Kant, Laclos, Rousseau, Sade, Schiller, Sterne and Wollstonecraft. The concluding discussion of the implied futures of the operas argues that their divided sexualities, which are those of the Enlightenment as a whole, have come to form our own unquestioned assumptions about gender differences and sexuality. This, along with the elegant and eloquent precision of Mozart's music, is why Figaro, Giovanni and Così still maintain their vital immediacy for audiences today.

Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015020313683

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Don Giovanni, a Grand Opera, in Two Acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Pdf