Mozarts Librettos

Author : Rodney Bolt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596919825
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Librettist of Venice written by Rodney Bolt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-11 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1805, Lorenzo Da Ponte was the proprietor of a small grocery store in New York. But since his birth into an Italian Jewish family in 1749, he had already been a priest, a poet, the lover of many women, a scandalous Enlightenment thinker banned from teaching in Venice, the librettist for three of Mozart's most sublime operas, a collaborator with Salieri, a friend of Casanova, and a favorite of Emperor Joseph II. He would go on to establish New York City's first opera house and be the first professor of Italian at Columbia University. An inspired innovator but a hopeless businessman, who loved with wholehearted loyalty and recklessness, Da Ponte was one of the early immigrants to live out the American dream. In Rodney Bolt's rollicking and extensively researched biography, Da Ponte's picaresque life takes readers from Old World courts and the back streets of Venice, Vienna, and London to the New World promise of New York City. Two hundred and fifty years after Mozart's birth, the life and legacy of his librettist Da Ponte are as astonishing as ever.

Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486277264
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Mozart Libretti written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handy practical guide to three of Mozart's most popular operas. Excellent line-for-line English translations face the Italian texts. Also introductions, plot synopses, and lists of characters for each opera.

Author : Sheila Hodges
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299178730
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lorenzo Da Ponte written by Sheila Hodges and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2002-06-15 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three of the greatest operas ever written—The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte—join the exquisite music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with the perfectly matched libretti of Lorenzo Da Ponte. Da Ponte’s own long life (1749–1838), however, was more fantastic than any opera plot. A poor Jew who became a Catholic priest; a priest who became a young gambler and rake; a teacher, poet, and librettist of genius who became a Pennsylvania greengrocer; an impoverished immigrant to America who became professor of Italian at Columbia University—wherever Da Ponte went, he arrived a penniless fugitive and made a new and eventful life. Sheila Hodges follows him from the last glittering years of the Venetian Republic to the Vienna of Mozart and Salieri, and from George III’s London to New York City.

Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Don Giovanni (Don Juan) written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486277267
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Mozart Libretti written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handy practical guide to three of Mozart's most popular operas. Excellent line-for-line English translations face the Italian texts. Also introductions, plot synopses, and lists of characters for each opera.

Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486249445
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mozart's Don Giovanni written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Giovanni has been called the greatest opera ever composed, an almost perfect work. Along with "Aida," "La Boheme," and "Carmen," Mozart's masterpiece is one of the most often performed operas. The work is so admired that when the Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini was asked which of his own operas he liked best, Rossini unhesitatingly replied, ""Don Giovanni."" This Dover edition contains the standard Italian libretto of "Don Giovanni," side by side with a complete new English translation. Convenient and portable, it also includes an informative Introduction, a complete List of Characters, and an easy-to-follow Plot Summary. All repeats are given in full, so you can follow the text as it is sung, without losing your place. With this inexpensive, handy guide, opera lovers can appreciate every word of Mozart's brilliant comic drama in the original Italian or in modern English. An ideal companion for reading along with a recording, a broadcast, or at the performance itself, this superb volume is a first-rate aid to enjoyment of one of the world's most celebrated operas. "

Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815301080
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The librettos of Mozart's operas: The works for Salzburg and Milan written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1992 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Kristi Brown-Montesano
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520385799
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas written by Kristi Brown-Montesano and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is The Marriage of Figaro just about Figaro? Is Don Giovanni’s story the only one—or even the most interesting one—in the opera that bears his name? For generations of critics, historians, and directors, it’s Mozart’s men who have mattered most. Too often, the female characters have been understood from the male protagonist’s point of view or simply reduced on stage (and in print) to paper cutouts from the age of the powdered wig and the tightly cinched corset. It’s time to give Mozart’s women—and Mozart’s multi-dimensional portrayals of feminine character—their due. In this lively book, Kristi Brown-Montesano offers a detailed exploration of the female roles in Mozart’s four most frequently performed operas, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, and Die Zauberflöte. Each chapter takes a close look at the music, libretto text, literary sources, and historical factors that give shape to a character, re-evaluating common assumptions and proposing fresh interpretations. Brown-Montesano views each character as the subject of a story, not merely the object of a hero’s narrative or the stock figure of convention. From amiable Zerlina, to the awesome Queen of the Night, to calculating Despina, all of Mozart’s women have something unique to say. These readings also tackle provocative social, political, and cultural issues, which are used in the operas to define positive and negative images of femininity: revenge, power, seduction, resistance, autonomy, sacrifice, faithfulness, class, maternity, and sisterhood. Keenly aware of the historical gap between the origins of these works and contemporary culture, Brown-Montesano discusses how attitudes about such concepts—past and current—influence our appreciation of these fascinating representations of women.

Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393066096
Total Pages : 1177 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seven Mozart Librettos written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 1177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents translations of librettos into verse of seven of Mozart's operas, including "The Marriage of Figaro," "Don Giovanni," and "Cosi Fan Tutte," featuring a history of each opera, dramatic recaps of the plots, and character lists.

Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815301103
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Da Ponte Operas written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1992 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.