| Contents |
Sacrifice dramas -- The genesis of Idomeneo -- Mozart's tragic muse -- Coming of age in Vienna: Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail [Abduction from the Seraglio] -- The poet as stage director: Metastasio, Goldoni, and Da Ponte -- From Beaumarchais to Da Ponte: the metamorphosis of Figaro -- Setting the stage for Figaro -- Constructing Le nozze di Figaro -- Don Giovanni: conception and creation -- An iconography of the dances in the ballroom scene of Don Giovanni -- Goldoni, Don Giovanni, and the Dramma Giocoso -- Donna Elvira and the great sextet -- Three schools for lovers, or "Cosi fan tutte le belle" -- Citation, reference, and recall in Cosi fan tutte -- La Clemenza di Sarastro: masonic beneficence in the last operas -- At the north gate: instrumental music in Die Zauberflote -- Mozart and his Italian contemporaries -- The overture to La clemeza di Tito as dramatic argument. |
| Abstract |
Renowned Mozart scholar Daniel Heartz brings his deep knowledge of social history, theater, and art to a study of the last decade of Mozart's operas. Mozart specialists will recognize some of Heartz's best-known essays here; but six pieces are new for the collection, and others have been revised and updated with little-known documents on the librettist's, composer's, and stage director's craft. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-351) and indexes. |
| LCCN | 89020435 |
| ISBN | 0520068629 (alk. paper) |
