Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna

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.