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W. A. Mozart: Cosi fan tutte
Bruce Alan Brown
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Description for W. A. Mozart: Cosi fan tutte
Paperback. Bruce Alan Brown offers several paths towards a closer understanding of Cosi fan tutte. Series Editor(s): Wagner, Richard. Series: Cambridge Opera Handbooks. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8 b/w illus. 57 music examples. BIC Classification: AVGC9; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 142 x 215 x 15. Weight in Grams: 326.
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 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. The handbook also includes a discussion of the social and philosophical issues raised in Così and a chapter devoted to the opera's genesis reveals surprising new information on the role played by Mozart's rival Salieri. It contains a full ... Read more
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 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. The handbook also includes a discussion of the social and philosophical issues raised in Così and a chapter devoted to the opera's genesis reveals surprising new information on the role played by Mozart's rival Salieri. It contains a full ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Opera Handbooks
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521437356
SKU
V9780521437356
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