Recognition in Mozart's Operas

Jessica Waldoff (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2011
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-985630-5 (ISBN)

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Since its beginnings, opera has depended on recognition as a central aspect of both plot and theme. Though a standard feature of opera, recognition -- a moment of new awareness that brings about a crucial reversal in the action -- has been largely neglected in opera studies. In Recognition in Mozart's Operas, musicologist Jessica Waldoff draws on a broad base of critical thought on recognition from Aristotle to Terence Cave to explore the essential role it plays in Mozart's operas. The result is a fresh approach to the familiar question of opera as drama and a persuasive new reading of Mozart's operas.

Jessica Waldoff is an Associate Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Music at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents ; Introduction ; Recognition: An Introduction ; Recognition as a New Perspective ; Figaro's "Scar" as the "Signature of a Fiction" ; Chapter 1: Operatic Enlightenment in Die Zauberflote ; Enlightenment as Metaphor ; Tamino's Recognition: "Wann wird das Licht mein Auge finden?" ; Pamina, Papageno, and the End of the Opera ; The "Scandal" of Recognition ; Chapter 2: Recognition Scenes in Theory and Practice ; Recognition in Classical and Contemporary Poetics ; Recognitions of Identity in Mozart ; Disguise and Its Discovery ; The Quest for Self-Discovery ; What Recognition Brings in the End ; Chapter 3: Reading Opera for the Plot ; Plot in Contemporary Poetics and Opera ; Plotting in Le nozze di Figaro ; Mozart and the Plot that is "Well Worked Out" ; Chapter 4: Sentimental Knowledge in La finta giardiniera ; La "vera" and la "finta" giardiniera ; Reading Opera "for the sentiment" ; Sandrina as "Virtue in Distress" ; Count Belfiore, Madness, and the Restorative Recognition ; Chapter 5: Don Giovanni: Recognition Denied ; The Problem of the Ending ; Denouement and lieto fine ; Recognition Prepared and Denied ; "Life without the Don" ; Chapter 6: Sense and Sensibility in Cosi fan tutte ; Resisting the Ending ; Reading Cosi "for the sentimen" ; The Language of Sentimental Knowledge ; "Vorrei dir," "Smanie implacabili," and Questions of Parody ; Positions of Knowledge ; Chapter 7: Fiordiligi: A Woman of Feeling ; The Ideal of the Phoenix ; Fiordiligi, Ferrarese, and "Come scoglio" ; "Per pieta": Recognition Denied ; The Triumph of Feeling over Constancy ; Chapter 8: La clemenza di Tito: The Sense of the Ending ; The Language of clemenza and pieta ; The Politics of Tyranny ; Vitellia's Transformation ; Sesto's Conflict ; Tito's Clemency ; Afterword ; "I called him a Papageno" ; Beyond Mozart ; Works Cited

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.11.2011
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	494 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
ISBN-10	0-19-985630-3 / 0199856303
ISBN-13	978-0-19-985630-5 / 9780199856305
Zustand	Neuware