W. A. Mozart: Così Fan TutteCambridge University Press, 1995 M11 24 - 208 páginas At once the most light-hearted and most disturbing of Mozart and Da Ponte's Italian comic operas, Così fan tutte has provoked widely differing reactions from listeners for more than two centuries. Bruce Alan Brown offers several paths toward a closer understanding of the work, providing a detailed account of the libretto's complex origins in myth and Italian literary classics. The Handbook also reveals surprising new information on the role played by Mozart's rival Salieri. It contains a full synopsis, performance history, illustrations from key productions, and a bibliography, |
Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
drainma che tiene il terzo loco | 3 |
An alternative trilogy | 6 |
Genesis | 8 |
The literary impulse | 11 |
Topicality | 15 |
The compositional process | 18 |
Towards the premiere | 22 |
The musical dramaturgy of the opera | 95 |
Versification | 97 |
Tonal planning | 100 |
tears and laughter in the farewell quintet | 107 |
two duets | 111 |
Prediction recollection and oblivion | 116 |
convention and citation | 125 |
Opera buffa models | 135 |
Synopsis | 25 |
The sources of an original libretto | 57 |
Myths and morals | 58 |
Cosi fan tutte as Ariostan capriccio | 60 |
Marivaux and Beaumarchais | 70 |
Opera out of opera | 73 |
Cost fan tutte orLa Partie carree the eighteenthcentury context of a theatrical subject | 82 |
Pezzl on love and Enlightenment | 87 |
cosi son tutte | 89 |
Parties carrees | 91 |
Final games | 146 |
Performance and criticism | 157 |
The myth of the failed premiere | 163 |
The fortunes of Cosi to 1848 | 165 |
The later nineteenth century | 171 |
rehabilitation | 172 |
Notes | 183 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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