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dc.contributor.authorSchneider, Magnus Tessing
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-11T11:33:30Z
dc.date.available2021-11-11T11:33:30Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifierONIX_20211111_9781000510539_6
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51420
dc.description.abstractThe Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni offers an original reading of Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s opera Don Giovanni, using as a lens the portrayal of the title role by its creator, the baritone Luigi Bassi (1766–1825). Although Bassi was coached in the role by the composer himself, his portrayal has never been studied in depth before, and this book presents a large number of new sources (first- and second-hand accounts), which allows us to reconstruct his performance scene by scene. The book confronts Bassi’s portrayal with a study of the opera’s early German reception and performance history, demonstrating how Don Giovanni as we know it today was not only created by Mozart, Da Ponte and Luigi Bassi but also by the early German adapters, translators, critics and performers who turned the title character into the arrogant and violent villain we still encounter in most of today’s stage productions. Incorporating discussion of dramaturgical thinking of the late Enlightenment and the difficult moral problems that the opera raises, this is an important study for scholars and researchers from opera studies, theatre and performance studies, music history as well as conductors, directors and singers.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAshgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Musicen_US
dc.subject.otherAshgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera
dc.subject.otheradaptation
dc.subject.othercriticism
dc.subject.otherDa Ponte
dc.subject.otherdramatury
dc.subject.otherenlightenment
dc.subject.otherGerman reception
dc.subject.otherLuigi Bassi
dc.subject.otherMagnus Tessing Schneider
dc.subject.otherMozart’s Don Giovanni
dc.subject.otherMusic History
dc.subject.othermorality
dc.subject.otherOpera Studies
dc.subject.otherperformance history
dc.subject.otherstage production
dc.subject.otherTheatre and Performance Studies
dc.subject.othertranslation
dc.subject.otherWolfgang Amadeus Mozart
dc.titleThe Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9780429281709
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb
oapen.relation.isFundedByStockholms Universitet
oapen.relation.isbn9781000510539
oapen.relation.isbn9781032158334
oapen.relation.isbn9780429281709
oapen.relation.isbn9780367243203
oapen.imprintRoutledge
oapen.pages260
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