Cabals and Satires: Mozart's Comic Operas in Vienna

ISBN-13: 9780190692636 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 304 str.

Ian Woodfield

Recenzje

Cabals and Satires is a remarkable achievement both for its new discoveries and for its profoundly original conception of a neglected topic: operatic rivalry in Vienna at the time of Figaro. Focusing on the head-to-head competition between the German and Italian troupes created by the reinstatement of the Singspiel troupe in 1786, Woodfield explores the larger culture of rivalry it fostered among composers, librettists, singers, individual operas, and theaters (court vs. suburban). This book will forever change our understanding of operatic culture in Mozart's Vienna.

O autorze

Ian Woodfield is Professor of Historical Musicology at Queen's University Belfast, and has specialized in Mozart's operas for the last sixteen years. He published a monograph with OUP in 2000 entitled Music of the Raj: A Social and Economic History of Music in Late 18th-Century Anglo-Indian Society.