Abstract
Part 1 Introduction: hermeneutics words, music and the operatic synthesis reason, feeling and sexuality. Part 2 Enlightenment individualism: negative freedom Anglo-French subjectivism Enlightenment sexuality the Aufklarung. Part 3 Enlightenment music: music theory the dialect of the Rococo the sonata principle. Part 4 The ends of the Enlightenment: the amorality of individualism Kant and de Sade - negative sexuality dualism and the return to faith towards an ideal music. Part 5 The Viennese Enlightenment: Mozart in Vienna Mozart and Viennese opera. Part 6 Operatic masculinity: an experimental ethics alternative masculinities opposed masculinities. Part 7 Operatic femininity I - negative enlightenment: the ironies of alterity vulnerability, dependency, hysteria a show of strength. Part 8 Operatic femininity II - sirens in bondage: Dubbi e Sospetti Despina's magic power contributory negligence. Part 9 Punishments and promises: the seduction of Fiordiligi sexual antagonism as moral resolution.
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