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 toward a closer understanding of the work, providing a detailed account of the libretto's complex origins in myth and Italian literary classics. The Handbook also reveals surprising new information on the role played by Mozart's rival Salieri. It contains a full synopsis, performance history, illustrations from key productions, and a bibliography,
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At once the most light-hearted and disturbing of Mozart and Da Ponte's Italian comic works, the opera has provoked widely differing reactions from listeners for more than two centuries. This study provides a detailed account of the libretto's complex origins in myth and Italian literary classics.
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Towards the end of December 1789 Mozart sent a note to his friend, creditor and fellow Freemason, Michael Puchberg, inviting him to a private rehearsal of a new opera he had written for Vienna's court theatre: Next month I will receive from the directorate (according to the current arrangement) 200 ducats for my opera; if you can and will lend me 400 florins until then, you will lift your friend from the greatest embarrassment, and I give you my word of honour that you will have the money back at the appointed time in cash and in full, with all my thanks...[After cancelling an engagement for the next day:] But I invite you (and you alone) to my apartment at 10 in the morning on Thursday [the 31st] for a little opera rehearsal - i'm inviting only you and Haydn...One reason for this invitation (as also a later one, to the first orchestral rehearsal) was to impress Puchberg that Mozart was in fact producing works that would bring in money with which to repay him for past and future loans. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vita militar, fan tulle, fan cutte, siate ritrosi, second finale, first finale, fan lutte, fan tutte, degli amanti, preceding recitative, original lovers, quindici anni, first aria, cosa rara, accompanied recitative, opera journal, opera seria, opera buffa, autograph score, ottava rima Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Don Giovanni, Don Alfonso, Adriana Ferrarese, Constanze Mozart, Louise Villeneuve, Emperor Joseph, Ferrando Gugliemo, Jonathan Miller, Recitativo Alfonso, Recitativo Despina, Aleksandr Ulybyshev, Dorothea Bussani, Recitativo Fiordiligi New!
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Towards the end of December 1789 Mozart sent a note to his friend, creditor and fellow Freemason, Michael Puchberg, inviting him to a private rehearsal of a new opera he had written for Vienna's court theatre: Next month I will receive from the directorate (according to the current arrangement) 200 ducats for my opera; if you can and will lend me 400 florins until then, you will lift your friend from the greatest embarrassment, and I give you my word of honour that you will have the money back at the appointed time in cash and in full, with all my thanks...[After cancelling an engagement for the next day:] But I invite you (and you alone) to my apartment at 10 in the morning on Thursday [the 31st] for a little opera rehearsal - i'm inviting only you and Haydn...One reason for this invitation (as also a later one, to the first orchestral rehearsal) was to impress Puchberg that Mozart was in fact producing works that would bring in money with which to repay him for past and future loans. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vita militar, fan tulle, fan cutte, siate ritrosi, second finale, first finale, fan lutte, fan tutte, degli amanti, preceding recitative, original lovers, quindici anni, first aria, cosa rara, accompanied recitative, opera journal, opera seria, opera buffa, autograph score, ottava rima Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Don Giovanni, Don Alfonso, Adriana Ferrarese, Constanze Mozart, Louise Villeneuve, Emperor Joseph, Ferrando Gugliemo, Jonathan Miller, Recitativo Alfonso, Recitativo Despina, Aleksandr Ulybyshev, Dorothea Bussani, Recitativo Fiordiligi New!
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- Don Giovanni in Full Score by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on 34 pages
- Mozart and Vienna by H. C. Robbins Landon in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Die Wahlverwandtschaften (German Edition) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on page 91, page 92, and Back Matter
- Die Wahlverwandtschaften by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on page 91, page 92, and Back Matter
- Mozart and Vienna by H.C.Robbins Landon in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna (Cambridge Studies in Opera) by Mary Hunter on page 142, and Back Matter
- Mozart's Operas (A Centennial Book) by Daniel Heartz in Back Matter
- The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna by Mary Hunter in Front Matter
- Music, Sensation, and Sensuality (Critical and Cultural Musicology) by Linda Phyllis Austern on page 227
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