PowerPoint Presentation Classical Opera

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Review Opera Reform

• Gluck
• Enlightenment ideals
• Flexible
• Expressive
• Variety orchestra/dance/chorus/aria/recit.
• Drama
• Modified formss

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Mozart

• Opera seria
• Idomeneo (1780, Salzburg)
• La clemenza di Tito (1791, coronation of Leopold
  II, King of Bohemia)

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Mozarts Major Operas

• Singspiel
• Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1782)
• Die Zauberflöte (1791)
• Italian operas
• Le Nozze di Figaro (1786)
• Don Giovanni (1787)
• Così fan tutte (1790)
• All based on libretti by Lorenzo da Ponte

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Le Nozze di Figaro

• Comic Italian opera
• Based on play by Beaumarchais
• Banned/controversial
• Moderate success in Vienna

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Don Giovanni

• Commissioned in Prague
• Dramma giocoso
• Story Don Juan legend
• Humanism
• CHARACTERIZATION!
• EXAMPLE 111 Mozart Don Giovanni excerpts

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From this lecture you need to know

• Mozarts operas
• Opera seria
• Singspiele
• Italian operas
• How does Mozart integrate Reform ideals?
• Style
• Characterization