The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna : a Poetics of Entertainment. by Hunter, Mary

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Don Pasquale : opera buffa in three acts / by Gaetano Donizetti ; libretto by Giovanni Ruffini and Gaetano Donizetti. by Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797-1848

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Le nozze di Figaro : K. 492; opera buffa in four acts / Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte after Beaumarchais. by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791

A history of opera : milestones and metamorphoses / by Burton D. Fisher. by Fisher, Burton D.

Table of Contents: “…A History of Opera: Milestones and Metamorphoses / Opera Classics Library Series; About the Author; A History of Opera: Milestones and Metamorphoses: Title Page; Opera Journeys publications; Contents; A Prelude; Chapter One: The Birth of Modern Opera: The First 150 Years -- 1500 to 1750; Chapter two: Handel and Baroque Opera; Chapter three: Gluck: Returning to Ideals; Chapter four: French Baroque Opera: Lully and Rameau; Chapter five: Mozart and the Classical Era; Chapter six: Carl Maria von Weber: German Romanticism; Chapter seven: Rossini and Opera Buffa.…”
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W. A. Mozart / Hermann Abert ; translated by Stewart Spencer ; edited by Cliff Eisen. by Abert, Hermann, 1871-1927

Table of Contents: “…Childhood -- Travels of the childhood prodigy -- Works from the Grand Tour -- Studies in Salzburg -- First operas in Vienna -- Gesellschaftsmusik and church music in Salzburg -- First Italian journey -- Second and third Italian journeys -- Opera seria -- Early operas and the oratorio La Betulia liberata -- Church and instrumental works, 1769-1773 -- On the way to La finta giardiniera -- Opera buffa -- La finta giardiniera -- Mozart in Salzburg, 1775-1777 -- Munich and Augsburg -- Mannheim -- Arrival in Paris : tragédie lyrique -- Opéra comique -- The music dramas of Gluck -- Mozart in Paris -- Homecoming -- Service at the Salzburg court -- Sacred and instrumental works, 1779-1781 -- König Thamos and Zaide -- Idomeneo -- First steps in Vienna -- German singspiel -- Die Entführung aus dem Serail -- Engagement and marriage -- Mozart's personality -- Relations with Constanze, friends and colleagues, 1782-1786 -- Mozart and Freemasonry -- In the service of the aristocracy and society -- Plans for new operas -- Mozart's artistic creativity -- Profound changes in style : the influence of J.S. …”

Crazy Days - Or Making an Opera in Pandemic Times / EuroArts Music International.

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The secular commedia : comic mimesis in late eighteenth-century music / Wye Jamison Allanbrook ; edited by Mary Ann Smart and Richard Taruskin. by Allanbrook, Wye Jamison

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La finta giardiniera / Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; Conducted by Arnold Östman ; Directed by Göran Järvefelt ; Choreographed by Regina Beck-Friis ; Drottningholm Court Theatre Chorus and Orchestra. by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791

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Le nozze di Figaro / Mozart. by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791

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Stravinsky and his world / edited by Tamara Levitz.

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