SKU: BA.BVK01874
ISBN 9783761818749. 29 x 24.5 cm inches. Preface: Freedberg, David.
The subject of this pictorial and textual monograph is the relationship between opera and the enlightenment in Josephine Vienna of the 1780s. At that time Lorenzo Da Ponte was a poet at the imperial theater and wrote many librettos for the opera stage, including the three great operas for Mozart that form the heart of this volume: Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Cosi fan tutte . The book emerged from three exhibitions mounted by the Da Ponte Institute in the Mahler Room of the Vienna State Opera. A rare amalgam of pictures, quotations, and explanatory notes that sheds new light on this exciting decade.
SKU: HL.50499669
UPC: 888680025540. 10x13.75 inches.
Full score with critical commentary in 1 volume.