Dramma giocoso : four contemporary perspectives on the Mozart/Da Ponte operas
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Dramma giocoso : four contemporary perspectives on the Mozart/Da Ponte operas
(Collected writings of the Orpheus Institute / edited by Peter Dejans, #10)
Leuven University Press, 2012
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Includes bibliographical references
Contents of Works
- By their arias shall ye know them : characterization in aria-based opera / Julian Rushton
- Don Ottavio and the history of the tenor voice / Stefan Rohringer
- Don Giovanni then and now : text and performance / Sergio Durante
- The Act IV finale of Le nozze di Figaro : dramatic and musical construction / James Webster
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The three Mozart/Da Ponte operas offer an inexhaustible wellspring for critical reflection, possessing a complexity and equivocation common to all great humane works. They have the potential to reflect and refract whatever locus of contemporaneity may be the starting point for enquiry. Thus, even postmodern and postmillennial concerns, far from seeming irrelevant to these operas, are instead given new perspectives by them, whilst the music and the dramatic situations have the multivalency to accept each refreshed pallet of interpretation without loss of their essential character. These operas seem perennially ‘new'. In exploring the evergreen qualities of Don Giovanni and Le Nozze di Figaro, this collection of studies does not shun approaches that have foundations in established theory, but refracts them through such problems as the tension between operatic tradition and psychological realism, the co-existence of multiple yet equal plots, and the antagonism between the tenets of tradition and the need for self-actualization. In exploring such themes, the authors not only illuminate new aspects of Mozart's operatic compositions, but also probe the nature of musical analysis itself.
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Table of Contents
CONTENTS
PREFACE
- Julian Rushton
'By their arias shall ye know them': characterization in aria-based opera
- Stefan Rohringer
Don Ottavio and the history of the tenor voice
- Sergio Durante
Don Giovanni then and now: text and performance
- James Webster
The Act IV Finale of Le nozze di Figaro: Dramatic and Musical Construction
PERSONALIA
COLOPHON
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