W.A. Mozart : Cosi Fan Tutte

Klappentext At once the most light-hearted and most disturbing of Mozart and Da Ponte's Italian comic operas, Cosi fan tutte has provoked widely differing reactions from listeners for more than two centuries. Bruce Alan Brown offers several paths towards a closer understanding of the work, providing a detailed account of the libretto's complex origins in myth, Italian literary classics, and contemporary theatre. Zusammenfassung Bruce Alan Brown offers several paths towards a closer understanding of Così fan tutte. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; General preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Genesis; 3. Synopsis 4. The sources of an 'original' libretto; 5. Così fan tutte, or 'La Partie carrée: the eighteenth-century context of a theatrical subject; 6. The musical dramaturgy of the opera; 7. Performance and criticism; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Bruce Alan Brown
• Assisted by: Richard Wagner (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.11.1995
• EAN: 9780521437356
• ISBN: 978-0-521-43735-6
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Cambridge Opera Handbooks
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries