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Book Cover 1 Contents 8 Appendix A: Annotated Text of I filosofi immaginari: Second-Act Finale 242 Appendix B: Annotated Text of Fra i due litiganti il terzo gode: Second-Act Finale 249 Index 336 Publisher:Princeton University Press,Published:1999,ISBN:9781400822751,Related ISBN:9780691058122,Language:English,OCLC:51575474 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 "sheer" pleasure and hence explores how the genre functioned as entertainment. She argues that opera buffa, like mainstream film today, projects a social world both recognizable and distinct from reality. It raises important issues while containing them in the "merely entertainin

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Author

Mary Kathleen Hunter

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400812158

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Music, Arts