W. A. Mozart: Idomeneo

Contents

• General preface
• List of illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1. Synopsis
• 2. Genesis of an operone
• 3. 'Madame Dorothea Wendling is arcicontentissima': the singers of Idomeneo
• 4. The genre of Idomeneo
• 5. From myth to libretto
• 6. Idomeneo after Mozart
• 7. General structure of Idomeneo
• 8. Two soliloquies
• 9. 'Colorito': aspects of musical language
• 10. Tonality and motive
• 11. Elettra's first aria and the storm scene
• 12. Critical conclusions
• Notes
• Select bibliography
• Index.