Osmin's Rage: Philosophical Reflections on Opera, Drama, and Text

Kivy, Peter

In his new concluding chapter, Peter Kivy advances his argument on behalf of a distinctive intellectual and musical character of opera before Mozart. He proposes that happy endings were a musical—as opposed to a dramatic—necessity for opera during this period and that Mozart's Idomeneo is properly enjoyed and judged only when listeners are attuned to its seventeenth and eighteenth-century forebears.

EAN

9780801485893

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

30 March 1999

Pages

336