Performing Operas for Mozart
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Performing Operas for Mozart

Impresarios, Singers and Troupes

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Performing Operas for Mozart

Impresarios, Singers and Troupes

About this book

The Italian opera company in Prague managed by Pasquale Bondini and Domenico Guardasoni played a central role in promoting Mozart's operas during the final years of his life. Using a wide range of primary sources which include the superb collections of eighteenth-century opera posters and concert programmes in Leipzig and the Indice de' teatrali spettacoli, an almanac of Italian singers and dancers, this study examines the annual schedules, recruitment networks, casting policies and repertoire selections of this important company. Ian Woodfield shows how Italian-language performances of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte and La clemenza di Tito flourished along the well-known cultural axis linking Prague in Bohemia to Dresden and Leipzig in Saxony. The important part played by concert performances of operatic arias in the early reception of Mozart's works is also discussed and new information is presented about the reception of Josepha Duschek and Mozart in Leipzig.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Performing Operas for Mozart
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Illustrations
  8. Figures
  9. Tables
  10. Musical examples
  11. Abbreviations
  12. Introduction
  13. 1: Pasquale Bondini
  14. 2: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
  15. 3: The Italian troupe in Prague
  16. 4: The Prague Figaro
  17. 5: The genesis of Don Giovanni
  18. 6: The première of Don Giovanni
  19. 7: The casting of Don Giovanni
  20. 8: The Leipzig Don Giovanni
  21. 9: The 1788 Prague Don Giovanni
  22. 10: Mozart's music in Leipzig
  23. 11: Josepha Duschek's academy (22 April 1788)
  24. 12: Mozart's academy (12 May 1789)
  25. 13: Guardasoni in Warsaw
  26. 14: The première of La clemenza di Tito
  27. 15: The Leipzig reception of the Da Ponte operas (1792–1794)
  28. 16: Guardasoni diversifies
  29. Conclusion
  30. Appendix 1: Leipzig posters for performances given by the Bondini–Guardasoni Company
  31. Appendix 2: Announcements placed in the Leipziger Zeitungen by the Bondini–Guardasoni Company 1782–1784
  32. Appendix 3: Concert performances of music from Haydn’s operas in Leipzig (1785–1791)
  33. Appendix 4: Selected details of benefit concerts given by instrumentalists in Leipzig 1780–1789
  34. Appendix 5: Performances of Mozart’s music at the Gewandhaus Subscription Concerts (1791–1794) [G] and the Dilettanten Concert (1793–1794) [R]
  35. Appendix 6: Music from La clemenza di Tito in Leipzig concerts (1795–1797)
  36. Appendix 7: Music from Idomeneo in Leipzig Concerts (1795–1797)
  37. Bibliography
  38. Index