W. A. Mozart Don Giovanni

Name: W. A. Mozart Don Giovanni
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ISBN: 9780521296632

ISBN-10: 0521296633

ISBN-13: 9780521296632

Edition: 1981

Authors: Julian Rushton, Richard Wagner

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This book is a study of Mozart's Don Giovanni, his second opera to a libretto by da Ponte. Although it is one of the handful of best-known and most often performed operas of the last two hundred years, Don Giovanni is seldom given in an authentic form and arguments persist as to its nature. Julian Rushton takes the view that, notwithstanding the tragic nature of certain scenes, it must be regarded as an opera buffa. He gives a brief summary of its history and life in the theatre, but the chief historical essay (by Edward Forman) concerns the subject-matter before it reached da Ponte. The book includes a very detailed synopsis which forms the basis of an extended commentary on the…

Book details

List price: $27.99
Copyright year: 1981
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/29/1981
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.59" wide x 7.95" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English



General preface


List of illustrations


Acknowledgments



Introduction



Synopsis



Don Juan before da Ponte




The libretto



Don Giovanni in the theatre



Don Giovanni as an idea




The music



The literature of Don Giovanni


Notes


Select bibliography


Bibliography for Chapter 3


Discography



Index