Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna

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Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Mary Hunter and James Webster Part I. Historical and Literary Contexts: 1. Goldoni, opera buffa, and Mozart's advent in Vienna Daniel Heartz 2. Lo specchio francese: Viennese opera buffa and the legacy of French theatre Bruce Alan Brown 3. Il re alla caccia and Le roi et le fermier: Italian and French treatments of class and gender Marvin Carlson 4. Mozart and eighteenth-century comedy Paolo Gallarati Part II. Social and Generic Meanings: 5. The sentimental muse of opera buffa Edmund J. Goehring 6. The biology lessons of opera buffa: gender, nature, and Bourgeois society on Mozart's buffa stage Tia Denora 7. Bourgeois values and Opera Buffa in 1780's Vienna Mary Hunter 8. Opera seria? Opera buffa? Genre and style as sign Marita P. McLymonds 9. Figaro as misogynist: on aria types and aria rhetoric Ronald J. Rabin 10. The alternative endings of Mozart's Don Giovanni Michael F. Robinson 11. Don Giovanni: recognition denied Jessica Waldoff Part III. Analytical and Methodological Issues: 12. Analysis and dramaturgy: reflections towards a theory of Opera Sergio Durante 13. Understanding opera buffa: analysis = interpretation James Webster 14. Operatic ensembles and the problem of the Don Giovanni sextet John Platoff 15. Buffo roles in Mozart's Vienna: tessitura and tonality as signs of characterization Julian Rushton List of works cited Index.