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Cosi Fan Tutte by Nicholas John (Volume Editor); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overtures Ser.
"It was a treat so truly intellectual that every ear and every breast, susceptible of harmony and of impression, was gratified to a degree beyond our power to describe." Thus reads one of the first London reviews of Così fan tutte. Its enigmatic mixture of a detached experiment in human foibles and a st ...Show more
Cosi Fan Tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Following the great successes of Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte was the last of the three operas that Mozart wrote with the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte. Although well received at its premiere in Vienna in 1790, it was then largely neglected until the mid-twentieth century. Its comic ...Show more
Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Gary Khan (Volume Editor); Kenneth Chalmers (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Die Zauberflöte had its premiere at the Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna on 30th September 1791, less than ten weeks before Mozart's death. It has proved to be one of the most enduringly popular of all his works and has enchanted generations of opera-goers of all ages. In a fairy-tale allegory imbued wi ...Show more
IDOMENEO by MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Mozart wrote Idomeneo when he was twenty-four years old, and the opera was described by Albert Einstein as 'one of those works that even a genius like Mozart could write only once in his life'. It is one of most astonishing achievements of an altogether astonishing career. In this newly commissioned gui ...Show more
Le Nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Gary Khan (Volume Editor)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Le nozze di Figaro is one of Mozart's best-loved and most enduring works. The first of the three operas he wrote with Lorenzo da Ponte and based on Beaumarchais's play, it established the thirty-year-old Mozart as an opera composer of the very first rank. Its combination of wit, acute psychological obse ...Show more
The Magic Flute by Nicholas John (Volume Editor); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Anthony Besch (Translator); Michael Geliot (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overtures Ser.
With his last opera Mozart created a piece of theatre which defies categorization. In theory it is a Singspiel, a mixture of songs and dialogue, in which the spectacular effects and comedy fit naturally: they appeal today as much as they did when it first opened in a popular Viennese theatre two hundred ...Show more
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