The Cambridge Companion to The Magic Flute
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 24 November 2023
- 02 November 2023
- ISBN:
- 9781108551328
- 9781108426893
- 9781108446846
- Dimensions:
- (244 x 170 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.84kg, 388 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (244 x 170 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.67kg, 388 Pages
- Subjects:
- Music, Opera, Eighteenth-Century Music, Music: General Interest
- Series:
- Cambridge Companions to Music
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- Music, Opera, Eighteenth-Century Music, Music: General Interest
- Series:
- Cambridge Companions to Music
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Book description
Since its premiere in 1791, The Magic Flute has been staged continuously and remains, to this day, Mozart's most-performed opera worldwide. This comprehensive, user-friendly, up-to-date critical guide considers the opera in a variety of contexts to provide a fresh look at a work that has continued to fascinate audiences from Mozart's time to ours. It serves both as an introduction for those encountering the opera for the first time and as a treasury of recent scholarship for those who know it very well. Containing twenty-one essays by leading scholars, and drawing on recent research and commentary, this Companion presents original insights on music, dialogue, and spectacle, and offers a range of new perspectives on key issues, including the opera's representation of exoticism, race, and gender. Organized in four sections – historical context, musical analysis, critical approaches, and reception – it provides an essential framework for understanding The Magic Flute and its extraordinary afterlife.
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‘This volume will surely spark these conversations in the scholarly community, another link in the chain of exploring this intriguing work.’
Lily Kass Source: Notes: the Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association.
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