Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Dramma Giocoso : Post-Millennial Encounters with the Mozart/Da Ponte Operas, Paperback / softback Book

Dramma Giocoso : Post-Millennial Encounters with the Mozart/Da Ponte Operas Paperback / softback

Edited by Darla Crispin

Part of the Collected Writings of the Orpheus Institute series

Paperback / softback

Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product

Description

The three Mozart/Da Ponte operas offer an inexhaustible wellspring for critical reflection, possessing a complexity and equivocation common to all great humane works.

They have the potential to reflect and refract whatever locus of contemporaneity may be the starting point for enquiry.

Thus, even postmodern and postmillennial concerns, far from seeming irrelevant to these operas, are instead given new perspectives by them, whilst the music and the dramatic situations have the multivalency to accept each refreshed pallet of interpretation without loss of their essential character.

These operas seem perennially ‘new'. In exploring the evergreen qualities of Don Giovanni and Le Nozze di Figaro, this collection of studies does not shun approaches that have foundations in established theory, but refracts them through such problems as the tension between operatic tradition and psychological realism, the co-existence of multiple yet equal plots, and the antagonism between the tenets of tradition and the need for self-actualization.

In exploring such themes, the authors not only illuminate new aspects of Mozart's operatic compositions, but also probe the nature of musical analysis itself.

This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Information

Save 13%

£29.00

£25.19

Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information

Also in the Collected Writings of the Orpheus Institute series

New Paths

£26.00

£23.29

Add to Basket

Partimento and Continuo Playing in...

£28.00

£26.15

Add to Basket

Ohne Worte

£30.00

£26.85

Add to Basket