Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna A Poetics of Entertainment

Name: Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna A Poetics of Entertainment
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ISBN: 9780691058122

ISBN-10: 0691058121

ISBN-13: 9780691058122

Edition: 1999

Authors: Mary Hunter

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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…

Book details

List price: $130.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 5/2/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Size: 6.61" wide x 9.45" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments


Editorial Policies


Abbreviations


Introduction



Opera Buffa as Entertainment



Opera Buffa as Sheer Pleasure



Opera Buffa's Conservative Frameworks



Opera Buffa's Social Reversals



The Closed Musical Numbers of Opera Buffa and Their Social Implications



Arias: Some Issues



Class and Gender in Arias: Five Aria Types



Ensembles



Beginning and Ending Together: Introduzioni and Finales



Cosi Fan Tutte le Opere? A Masterwork in Context



Cosi fan tutte in Conversation



Cosi fan tutte and Convention



Operas Consulted



Musical Forms in Opera Buffa Arias



Plot Summaries for I finti eredi, Le gare generose, and L'incognita perseguitata


Works Cited


Index