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xii, 459 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
Goldoni, opera buffa, and Mozart's advent in Vienna / Daniel Heartz -- Lo specchio francese : Viennese opera buffa and the legacy of French theatre / Bruce Alan Brown -- Il re alla caccia and Le Roi et le fermier : Italian and French treatments of class and gender / Marvin Carlson -- Mozart and eighteenth-century comedy / Paolo Gallarati -- Sentimental muse of opera buffa / Edmund J. Goehring -- Biology lessons of opera buffa : gender, nature, and bourgeois society on Mozart's buffa stage / Tia DeNora -- Bourgeois values and opera buffa in 1780s Vienna / Mary Hunter -- Opera seria? Opera buffa? Genre and style as sign / Marita P. McClymonds -- Figaro as misogynist : on aria types and aria rhetoric / Ronald J. Rabin -- Alternative endings of Mozart's Don Giovanni / Michael F. Robinson -- Don Giovanni : recognition denied / Jessica Waldoff -- Analysis and dramaturgy : reflections towards a theory of opera / Sergio Durante -- Understanding opera buffa : analysis=interpretation / James Webster -- Operatic ensembles and the problem of the Don Giovanni sextet / John Platoff -- Buffo roles in Mozart's Vienna : tessitura and tonality as signs of characterization / Julian Rushton.
edited by Mary Hunter and James Webster.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 426-442) and index.