Recognition in Mozart's Operas

ISBN: 9780199856305 出版年：2008 页码：350 Waldoff, Jessica Oxford University Press

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 Zauberflote 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 Denouement and lieto fine Recognition Prepared and Denied "Life without the Don" Chapter 6: Sense and Sensibility in Cosi fan tutte Resisting the Ending Reading Cosi "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 pieta": Recognition Denied The Triumph of Feeling over Constancy Chapter 8: La clemenza di Tito: The Sense of the Ending The Language of clemenza and pieta The Politics of Tyranny Vitellia's Transformation Sesto's Conflict Tito's Clemency Afterword "I called him a Papageno" Beyond Mozart Works Cited