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 inMozart'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.…mehr
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 inMozart'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 Associate Professor and Chair of the Music Department at the College of the Holy Cross.
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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 Zauberflöte 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 Dénouement and lieto fine Recognition Prepared and Denied "Life without the Don" Chapter 6: Sense and Sensibility in Così fan tutte Resisting the Ending Reading Così "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 pietà": Recognition Denied The Triumph of Feeling over Constancy Chapter 8: La clemenza di Tito: The Sense of the Ending The Language of clemenza and pietà The Politics of Tyranny Vitellia's Transformation Sesto's Conflict Tito's Clemency Afterword "I called him a Papageno" Beyond Mozart Works Cited
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 Zauberflöte 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 Dénouement and lieto fine Recognition Prepared and Denied "Life without the Don" Chapter 6: Sense and Sensibility in Così fan tutte Resisting the Ending Reading Così "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 pietà": Recognition Denied The Triumph of Feeling over Constancy Chapter 8: La clemenza di Tito: The Sense of the Ending The Language of clemenza and pietà The Politics of Tyranny Vitellia's Transformation Sesto's Conflict Tito's Clemency Afterword "I called him a Papageno" Beyond Mozart Works Cited
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