The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna : a Poetics of Entertainment.

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, synthe...

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Main Author: Hunter, Mary
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001.
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Summary: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 "shee.
Physical Description:1 online resource (350 pages)
ISBN:9781400822751
1400822750