Essays on Opera, 1750-1800

John A. Rice, Independent Scholar.

• Contents: Introduction; Part I Aesthetics and Dramaturgy: The theory and practice of piccinnisme, Julian Rushton; Recitative and dramaturgy in the dramma per musica, Raymond Monelle; Opera versus drama: Romeo and Juliet in 18th-century Germany, Thomas Bauman; Mozart's operas and the myth of musical unity, James Webster. Part II Singers: Raaff's last aria: a Mozartian idyll in the spirit of Hasse, Daniel Heartz; Galuppi, Tenducci, and Motezuma: a commentary on the history and musical style of opera seria after 1750, Dale E. Monson; 'Ich bin die erste Sängerin': vocal profiles of two Mozart sopranos, Patricia Lewy Gidwitz; Mozart's Ilia and Elettra: new perspectives on Idomeneo, Paul Corneilson. Part III Sensibility, Sentiment, and the Pastoral: 'Pamela': the offspring of Richardson's heroine in 18th-century opera, Mary Hunter; Human nature in the unnatural garden: Figaro as pastoral, Wye J. Allanbrook; From Nina to Nina: psychodrama, absorption and sentiment in the 1780s, Stefano Castelvecchi; L'arbore di Diana: a model for Così fan tutte, Dorothea Link; The sentimental muse of opera buffa, Edmund J. Goehring. Part IV Orientalism and Exoticism: Mozart in Turkey, Benjamin Perl; Oriental tyranny in the extreme West: reflections on Amiti e Ontario and Le gare generose, Pierpaolo Polzonetti. Part V Opera and Politics: On the freedom of the theatre and censorship: the Adrien controversy (1792), Elizabeth C. Bartlet; Songs to shape a German nation: Hiller's comic operas and the public sphere, Estelle Joubert. Part VI Mozart and His Viennese Contemporaries: Mozart's fee for Così fan tutte, Dexter Edge; How original was Mozart? Evidence from opera buffa, John Platoff; Salieri's Così fan tutte, Bruce Alan Brown and John A.Rice; Die Zauberflöte, Masonic opera, and other fairy tales, David J. Buch. Part VII Opera Seria: The Venetian role in the transformation of Italian opera seria in the 1790s, Marita P. McClymonds; Mayr, Rossini, and the development of the opera seria du

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