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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
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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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (350 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781400822751 1400822750 |
| Access: | JSTOR Electronic access restricted to Villanova University patrons. |