W. A. Mozart: Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521310604)

This addition to the Cambridge Opera Handbooks series is also the first full-length study of Mozart's Die Entf hrung aus dem Serail. It aims to familiarize the reader with all aspect of the work: Mozart's writing of the opera and its literary antecedents, its plot, its musical structure, its reception and performance history. The reader will find much that is new in Thomas Bauman's study. He discusses the opera in relation to other Oriental operas, in the light of eighteenth-centruy apprehensions of the East, and as an attempt to reconcile the conventions of German opera in the early 1780s with Viennese taste and Mozart's own maturing operatic aesthetic. The text is well illustrated with pictures and music examples and a full discography lists the available recordings of the opera. This will be essential reading for all who have an interest in Mozart's operas, whether as student, scholar or opera-lover.

Author: Thomas Bauman
ISBN-10: 0521310601
ISBN-13: 9780521310604
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/29/1988
Pages: 156
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.41h x 5.40w x 0.38d