Performing operas for Mozart : impresarios, singers and troupes / Ian Woodfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woodfield, Ian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Operas.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791--Performances.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.

Impresarios.

Bondini, Pasquale, approximately 1737-1789.

Bondini, Pasquale.

Guardasoni, Domenico, approximately 1731-1806.

Guardasoni, Domenico.

Opera--Production and direction--Germany--Leipzig--18th century.

Opera.

Opera--Production and direction--Czech Republic--Prague--18th century.

Opera--Production and direction.

Performances.

Czech Republic--Prague.

Germany--Leipzig.

Physical Description:

xv, 274 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Summary:

The Italian opera company in Prague managed by Pasquale Bondini and Domenico Guardasoni played a central role in promoting Mozart's operas during the final years of his life. Using a wide range of primary sources which include the superb collections of eighteenth-century opera posters and concert programmes in Leipzig and the Indice de' teatrali spettacoli, an almanac of Italian singers and dancers, this study examines the annual schedules, recruitment networks, casting policies and repertoire selections of this important company. Woodfield shows how Italian-language performances of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cost fan tutte and La clemenza di Tito flourished along the well-known cultural axis linking Prague in Bohemia to Dresden and Leipzig in Saxony. The important part played by concert performances of operatic arias in the early reception of Mozart's works is also discussed, and new information is presented about the reception of Josepha Duschek and Mozart in Leipzig. Book jacket.

Contents:

Pasquale Bondini

Die Entführung aus dem Serail

The Italian troupe in Prague

The Prague Figaro

The genesis of Don Giovanni

The première of Don Giovanni

The casting of Don Giovanni

The Leipzig Don Giovanni

The 1788 Prague Don Giovanni

Mozart's music in Leipzig

Josepha Duschek's academy (22 April 1788)

Mozart's academy (12 May 1789)

Guardasoni in Warsaw

The première of La clemenza di Tito

The Leipzig reception of the Da Ponte operas (1792-1794)

Guardasoni diversifies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-266) and index.

ISBN:

9781107014299

1107014298

OCLC:

751752431

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