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Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Mary Hunter and James Webster
- Part I . Historical and Literary Contexts:
- 1. Goldoni, opera buffa, and Mozart's advent in Vienna Daniel Heartz
- 2. Lo specchio francese: Viennese opera buffa and the legacy of French theatre Bruce Alan Brown
- 3. Il re alla caccia and Le roi et le fermier: Italian and French treatments of class and gender Marvin Carlson
- 4. Mozart and eighteenth-century comedy Paolo Gallarati
- Part II . Social and Generic Meanings:
- 5. The sentimental muse of opera buffa Edmund J. Goehring
- 6. The biology lessons of opera buffa: gender, nature, and Bourgeois society on Mozart's buffa stage Tia Denora
- 7. Bourgeois values and Opera Buffa in 1780's Vienna Mary Hunter
- 8. Opera seria? Opera buffa? Genre and style as sign Marita P. McLymonds
- 9. Figaro as misogynist: on aria types and aria rhetoric Ronald J. Rabin
- 10. The alternative endings of Mozart's Don Giovanni Michael F. Robinson
- 11. Don Giovanni: recognition denied Jessica Waldoff
- Part III . Analytical and Methodological Issues:
- 12. Analysis and dramaturgy: reflections towards a theory of Opera Sergio Durante
- 13. Understanding opera buffa: analysis = interpretation James Webster
- 14. Operatic ensembles and the problem of the Don Giovanni sextet John Platoff
- 15. Buffo roles in Mozart's Vienna: tessitura and tonality as signs of characterization Julian Rushton
- List of works cited
- Index.