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ISBN 10: 075462904X

ISBN 13: 9780754629047

Author: John A. Rice

The study of opera in the second half of the eighteenth century has flourished during the last several decades, and our knowledge of the operas written during that period and of their aesthetic, social, and political context has vastly increased. This volume explores opera and operatic life of the years 1750-1800 through a selection of articles intended to represent the last few decades of scholarship in all its excitement and variety.

Table of contents:

PART I AESTHETICS AND DRAMATURGY

1 The Theory and Practice of Piccinnisme

2 Recitative and Dramaturgy in the Dramma per Musica

3 Opera versus Drama: Romeo and Juliet in Eighteenth-Century Germany

4 Mozart’s Operas and the Myth of Musical Unity

PART II SINGERS

5 Raaff’s Last Aria: A Mozartian Idyll in the Spirit of Hasse

6 Galuppi, Tenducci, and Motezuma: A Commentary on the History and Musical Style of Opera Seria after 1750

7 “Ich bin die erste Sängerin”: Vocal Profiles of Two Mozart Sopranos

8 Mozart’s Ilia and Elettra: New Perspectives on Idomeneo

PART III SENSIBILITY, SENTIMENT AND THE PASTORAL

9 “Pamela”: The Offspring of Richardson’s Heroine in Eighteenth-Century Opera

10 Human Nature in the Unnatural Garden: Figaro as Pastoral

11 From Nina to Nina: Psychodrama, Absorption and Sentiment in the 1780s

12 L’arbore di Diana: A Model for Così fan tutte’

13 The Sentimental Muse of Opera Buffa

PART IV ORIENTALISM AND EXOTICISM

14 Mozart in Turkey

15 Oriental Tyranny in the Extreme West: Reflections on Amiti e Ontario and Le gare generose

PART V OPERA AND POLITICS

16 On the Freedom of the Theatre and Censorship: The Adrien Controversy (1792)

17 Songs to Shape a German Nation: Hiller’s Comic Operas and the Public Sphere

PART VI MOZART AND HIS VIENNESE CONTEMPORARIES

18 Mozart’s Fee for Così fan tutte

19 How Original was Mozart? Evidence from Opera Buffa

20 Salieri’s Così fan tutte

21 Die Zauberflöte, Masonic Opera, and Other Fairy Tales

PART VII OPERA SERIA

22 The Venetian Role in the Transformation of Italian Opera Seria during the 1790s

23 Mayr, Rossini, and the Development of the Opera Seria Duet: Some Preliminary Conclusions

24 La clemenza di Tito and Other Two-Act Reductions of the Late 18th Century

25 The Absent Mother in Opera Seria

26 Producing the Operatic Chorus at Parma’s Teatro Ducale, 1759–1769

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