Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface
Editor's Preface

1. Sacrifice Dramas
2. The Genesis of Idomeneo
3· Mozart's Tragic Muse
4. Coming of Age in Vienna: Die Entfohrung aus dem Serail
5. The Poet as Stage Director: Metastasio, Goldoni, and DaPonte
6. From Beaumarchais to DaPonte: The Metamorphosis of Figaro
7. Setting the Stage for Figaro
8. Constructing Le nozze di Figaro
9. Don Giovanni: Conception and Creation
IO. An Iconography of the Dances in the Ballroom Scene of Don Giovanni
II. Goldoni, Don Giovanni, and the Dramma Giocoso
12. Donna Elvira and the Great Sextet
13. Three Schools for Lovers, or "Cosl fan tutte le belle"
14. Citation, Reference, and Recall in Cosi fan tutte
15. La Clemenza di Sarastro: Masonic Beneficence in the Last Operas
!6. At the North Gate: Instrumental Music in Die Zauberflote
17. Mozart and His Italian Contemporaries
18. The Overture to La clemenza di Tito as Dramatic Argument

Works Cited
Index of Mozart's Works
General Index

About the Author

Daniel Heartz is Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley. Thomas Bauman is Professor of Music at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Reviews

"Heartz's style is easy, almost conversational in tone. He has the great gift of being able to describe a complex sequence of shifting tonalities and textures so lucidly that he makes the drama come excitingly alive in purely verbal imagery. . . . A most welcome addition to the classics of the Mozart literature."--Alec Hyatt King, "The Musical Times