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W. A. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (Cambridge Opera Handbooks) Book

This opera handbook examines Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro from historical and musical perspectives.Read More

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  • Book Description

    This analysis of the opera, as well as its social, cultural and musical context, progresses to an exploration of the comic possibilities of the classical style and opera buffa in the 1770s and 1780s.

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    Le nozze di Figaro (1786) was Mozart's first mature opera buffa. It was also the first of his three major collaborations with the librettist Lorenzo da Ponte. Unlike Don Giovanni (1787) and Così fan tutte (1790), Figaro has few obvious problems, and even if it is not without flaws, it nevertheless contains a remarkable mixture of all those elements that go to produce a good opera: a sound plot, a well-structured text and fine music. This opera handbook examines the work from historical and musical perspectives, to set it in the context of Mozart's age.

  • 0521316065
  • 9780521316064
  • Tim Carter
  • 25 February 1988
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 180
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