Author: Jacques Chailley
Publisher: Inner Traditions
Published: 1992-01-01
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780892813582
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Chailley, a professor of music history at the Sorbonne, reveals the coherence of the opera and the hidden significance of its characters and situations. The author relates each of these elements to the esoteric tradition from which they emanate and to Mozart's own involvement with the Masonic brotherhood.
Author: Kristi Brown-Montesano
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2021-11-09
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0520385799
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Is The Marriage of Figaro just about Figaro? Is Don Giovanni’s story the only one—or even the most interesting one—in the opera that bears his name? For generations of critics, historians, and directors, it’s Mozart’s men who have mattered most. Too often, the female characters have been understood from the male protagonist’s point of view or simply reduced on stage (and in print) to paper cutouts from the age of the powdered wig and the tightly cinched corset. It’s time to give Mozart’s women—and Mozart’s multi-dimensional portrayals of feminine character—their due. In this lively book, Kristi Brown-Montesano offers a detailed exploration of the female roles in Mozart’s four most frequently performed operas, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, and Die Zauberflöte. Each chapter takes a close look at the music, libretto text, literary sources, and historical factors that give shape to a character, re-evaluating common assumptions and proposing fresh interpretations. Brown-Montesano views each character as the subject of a story, not merely the object of a hero’s narrative or the stock figure of convention. From amiable Zerlina, to the awesome Queen of the Night, to calculating Despina, all of Mozart’s women have something unique to say. These readings also tackle provocative social, political, and cultural issues, which are used in the operas to define positive and negative images of femininity: revenge, power, seduction, resistance, autonomy, sacrifice, faithfulness, class, maternity, and sisterhood. Keenly aware of the historical gap between the origins of these works and contemporary culture, Brown-Montesano discusses how attitudes about such concepts—past and current—influence our appreciation of these fascinating representations of women.
Author: M. F. M. Van Den Berk
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 746
ISBN-13: 9789004130999
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book demonstrates for the first time that Mozart's opera "Die Zauberflote" is an enactment of the alchemical "opus magnum," in the form of a "chemical wedding," using Paracelsus's "tria principia" doctrine that was strongly prevalent among Freemasons towards the end of the 18th century.
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Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing
Published: 2000-04
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 1930841132
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jacques Chailley
Publisher: Orion
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 384
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 0977145506
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive guide to Mozart's THE MAGIC FLUTE, featuring insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis, a complete, newly translated Libretto with German/English translation side-by side, and over 30 music highlight examples.
Author: Chris Raschka
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2019-08-13
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 1481449036
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From Caldecott Medalist and New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Chris Raschka comes a gorgeously illustrated retelling of Mozart’s classic opera, The Magic Flute. The Magic Flute is the favorite choice of many opera lovers. But ask any of them to tell you the rambunctious, mystical, and downright oddball story of the opera and no two tellers will agree. Enter Chris Raschka, an opera goer himself. His stunning version of the original plot and the otherworldly events which inspired Mozart’s glorious music showcases his interpretation from the storytelling front curtain at the start, to the radiant finale at the end. Readers will be exclaiming, Bravo!
Author: Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
Publisher:
Published: 1921
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher: New York : E. Mellen Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 104
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