Mozart And His Operas

Author : David Cairns
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780141904054

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David Cairns weaves a brilliantly engaging narrative which puts Mozart’s operas in the context of his life, showing how they illuminate his creativity as a whole. Mozart’s unusual childhood as a musical prodigy touring Europe as a performer from an early age is well known. But even more remarkable is that the genius grew up, surviving his unnatural early years and producing works of increasing maturity and originality. Using the operas as his guide, Cairns traces the steady deepening of Mozart’s musical style from his beginnings as a child prodigy, through his coming of age with what Cairns sees as the most Romantic and forward-looking of all Mozart’s operas, Idomeneo, the later genius displayed in the three comic operas, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte, and in The Magic Flute, the final and greatest triumph of his career.

Author : David Cairns
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520228987

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Mozart and His Operas by David Cairns Pdf

A noted music critic weaves a brilliantly engaging narrative which puts Mozart's operas in the context of his life, showing how they illuminate his creativity as a whole.

Author : David Cairns
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780140296747

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Mozart and His Operas by David Cairns Pdf

David Cairns tells the story of Mozart's life through a detailed study of his operas and what they reveal about hispersonality, his beliefs, and the sources of his musical inspiration.

Author : Kristi Brown-Montesano
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520385795

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Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas by Kristi Brown-Montesano Pdf

Is The Marriage of Figaro just about Figaro? Is Don Giovanni’s story the only one—or even the most interesting one—in the opera that bears his name? For generations of critics, historians, and directors, it’s Mozart’s men who have mattered most. Too often, the female characters have been understood from the male protagonist’s point of view or simply reduced on stage (and in print) to paper cutouts from the age of the powdered wig and the tightly cinched corset. It’s time to give Mozart’s women—and Mozart’s multi-dimensional portrayals of feminine character—their due. In this lively book, Kristi Brown-Montesano offers a detailed exploration of the female roles in Mozart’s four most frequently performed operas, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, and Die Zauberflöte. Each chapter takes a close look at the music, libretto text, literary sources, and historical factors that give shape to a character, re-evaluating common assumptions and proposing fresh interpretations. Brown-Montesano views each character as the subject of a story, not merely the object of a hero’s narrative or the stock figure of convention. From amiable Zerlina, to the awesome Queen of the Night, to calculating Despina, all of Mozart’s women have something unique to say. These readings also tackle provocative social, political, and cultural issues, which are used in the operas to define positive and negative images of femininity: revenge, power, seduction, resistance, autonomy, sacrifice, faithfulness, class, maternity, and sisterhood. Keenly aware of the historical gap between the origins of these works and contemporary culture, Brown-Montesano discusses how attitudes about such concepts—past and current—influence our appreciation of these fascinating representations of women.

Author : Julian Rushton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123250628

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The New Grove Guide to Mozart and His Operas by Julian Rushton Pdf

"Rushton has based this volume on articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera that feature information on the life of Mozart, his works, librettists, and interpreters, and the places where his works have been performed. Rushton compiles these meticulously researched articles into an organized narrative, designed to make finding information on Mozart as easy as possible without sacrificing readability This volume is completely up-to-date, and includes a suggested listening guide and a six-page photo gallery."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Mary Hunter
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999-04-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781400822751

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The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna by Mary Hunter Pdf

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.

Author : Daniel Heartz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520078721

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Mozart's Operas by Daniel Heartz Pdf

Renowned Mozart scholar Daniel Heartz brings his deep knowledge of social history, theater, and art to a study of the last and great 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 revised and updated with little-known documents on the librettist's, composer's, and stage director's craft. All lovers of opera will value the elegance and wit of Professor Heartz's writing, enhanced by thirty-seven illustrations, many from his private collection. The volume includes Heartz's classic essay on Idomeneo (1781), the work that continued to inspire and sustain Mozart through his next, and final, six operas. Thomas Bauman brings his special expertise to a discussion of Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1782). The ten central chapters are devoted to the three great operas composed to librettos by Lorenzo da Ponte—Le nozze di Figaro (l786), Don Giovanni (l787), and Così fan tutte (l790). The reader is treated to fresh insights on da Ponte's role as Mozart's astute and stage-wise collaborator, on the singers whose gifts helped shape each opera, and on the musical connections among the three works. Parallels are drawn with some of the greatest creative artists in other fields, such as Molière, Watteau, and Fragonard. The world of the dance, one of Heartz's specialties, lends an illuminating perspective as well. Finally, the essays discuss the deep spirituality of Mozart's last two operas, Die Zauberflöte and La Clemenza di Tito (both l79l). They also address the pertinence of opera outside Vienna at the end of the century, the fortunes and aspirations of Freemasonry in Austria, and the relation of Mozart's overtures to the dramaturgy of the operas.

Author : Martin Hoyle
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780857127617

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The World Of Opera: Mozart by Martin Hoyle Pdf

A new and popular biography that will appeal to all those who love the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and who would like to know more about his operas and the life he lived. Perhaps Mozart's operas -- more than any of the other forms in which he composed -- hint most at his "divine discontent", and reveal how this child prodigy turned into a genius who could see into the human heart.

Author : Stanley Sadie
Publisher : MacMillan Reference Library
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Composers
ISBN : UCSD:31822028334258

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Mozart and His Operas by Stanley Sadie Pdf

Includes a chronology of Mozart's life and works, with entries on his operas, singers, librettists, and on the cities where the operas were premiered.

Author : Edward Joseph Dent
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1015609368

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Mozart's Operas: A Critical Study by Edward Joseph Dent Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Simon P. Keefe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521001927

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The Cambridge Companion to Mozart by Simon P. Keefe Pdf

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Author : Brigid Brophy
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571304721

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Mozart the Dramatist by Brigid Brophy Pdf

Brigid Brophy first published her passionate, profoundly original Mozart the Dramatist in 1964, revisiting it subsequently in 1988. Organised by theme, the text offers brilliant readings of Mozart's five most famous operas - Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, and Die Zauberflöte - while a 1988 preface reconsiders Idomeneo and La Clemenza di Tito. Brophy's analysis is richly informed by her readings and interests in psychoanalysis, myth, and relations between the sexes, but her stress above all is on Mozart's 'unique excellence', his 'double supremacy' both as a 'classical' and 'psychological' artist. 'An illuminating, invigorating, thought-provoking and profoundly human book, of immense value to any lover of Mozart.' Jane Glover

Author : Jessica Waldoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195151978

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Recognition in Mozart's Operas by Jessica Waldoff Pdf

'Recognition in Mozart's Operas' is a thoughful treatise that uses both literary and musicological methods to illuminate some of Mozart's best-loved operas. Waldoff argues that, rather than offering the simple happy endings or tragic climaxes of 'easier' operas, many of Mozart's work features scenes of recognition-moments.

Author : Mary Kathleen Hunter,James Webster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997-11-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521572398

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Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna by Mary Kathleen Hunter,James Webster Pdf

This collection of essays, presented by an internationally known team of scholars, explores the world of Vienna and the development of opera buffa in the second half of the eighteenth century. Although today Mozart remains one of the most well-known figures of the period, the era was filled with composers, librettists, writers and performers who created and developed opera buffa. Among the topics examined are the relationship of Viennese opera buffa to French theatre; Mozart and eighteenth-century comedy; gender, nature and bourgeois society on Mozart's buffa stage; as well as close analyses of key works such as Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro.

Author : Brigid Brophy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Fine arts
ISBN : LCCN:88190858

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Mozart the Dramatist by Brigid Brophy Pdf