Italian Opera Singers in Mozart's Vienna

Dorothea Link is professor emerita of musicology at the University of Georgia. Her books include The National Court Theatre in Mozart's Vienna, Sources and Documents, 1783-1792 and Arias for Stefano Mandini, Mozart’s First Count Almaviva.

• Acknowledgments A Note on the Currency Used in Mozart’s ViennaThe Establishment and Management of the Italian Opera Company at the Vienna Court TheaterClassification of Operatic Roles, Voice Types, and Singing StylesCasting Information in Scores and Librettos of the Operas Produced in the Italian Company, 1783-91Nancy Storace: The Italian Company, 1783-84Nancy Storace: The Company Stabilizes, 1784-85Nancy Storace’s Annus Horribilis and Celeste Coltellini, 1785-86Nancy Storace’s Exuberant Year, 1786-87Anna Morichelli Comes and Goes, 1787-88Luisa Laschi: The Year of the Three Prima Donnas, 1788-89Adriana Ferrarese: Opera on a Shoestring, 1789-90Adriana Ferrarese: Portents of Change, 1790-91A Neapolitan Prima Donna and the End of Josephine Opera, 1791-92Appendix A. Roles of Ten Major Singers Appendix B. A Tale of Four ScoresNotesBibliographyIndex

"Dorothea Link crowns her research into Italian opera in Josephine Vienna by exposing systematically, season by season, the hierarchy of stars and lesser singers and the politics of their terms of employment: a book for scholars to treasure and enjoy."--Julian Rushton, author of Mozart