Ian Woodfield discusses the central role played by the Prague Italian opera company in performing Mozart's works in late eighteenth-century Bohemia and Saxony. The book focuses on the organisation of the company, its annual schedules, recruitment networks, casting policies and repertoire selections.
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A study of the Prague Italian opera company and its role in performing Mozart's works in the late eighteenth-century.
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| Introduction |
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2 Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail |
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3 The Italian troupe in Prague |
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5 The genesis of Don Giovanni |
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6 The premiere of Don Giovanni |
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7 The casting of Don Giovanni |
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8 The Leipzig Don Giovanni |
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9 The 1788 Prague Don Giovanni |
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10 Mozart's music in Leipzig |
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11 Josepha Duschek's academy (22 April 1788) |
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12 Mozart's academy (12 May 1789) |
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14 The premiere of La clemenza di Tito |
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15 The Leipzig reception of the Da Ponte operas (1792-1794) |
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16 Guardasoni diversifies |
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| Conclusion |
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| Appendices |
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| Bibliography |
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Ian Woodfield is Professor of Historical Musicology at Queen's University Belfast, where he teaches courses in notation, musical instruments and early repertoire. His books include Music of the Raj (2000), Opera and Drama (2002) and Mozart's Cosģ fan tutte: A Compositional History (2008), which received the Mozart Society of America's second Marjorie Weston Emerson Award.
