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oapen-20.500.12657-514202023-06-29T14:30:28Z The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni Schneider, Magnus Tessing Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera adaptation criticism Da Ponte dramatury enlightenment German reception Luigi Bassi Magnus Tessing Schneider Mozart’s Don Giovanni Music History morality Opera Studies performance history stage production Theatre and Performance Studies translation Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AV Music bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AV Music::AVG Music: styles & genres::AVGC Western "classical" music::AVGC9 Opera The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni offers an original reading of Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s opera Don Giovanni, using as a lens the portrayal of the title role by its creator, the baritone Luigi Bassi (1766–1825). Although Bassi was coached in the role by the composer himself, his portrayal has never been studied in depth before, and this book presents a large number of new sources (first- and second-hand accounts), which allows us to reconstruct his performance scene by scene. The book confronts Bassi’s portrayal with a study of the opera’s early German reception and performance history, demonstrating how Don Giovanni as we know it today was not only created by Mozart, Da Ponte and Luigi Bassi but also by the early German adapters, translators, critics and performers who turned the title character into the arrogant and violent villain we still encounter in most of today’s stage productions. Incorporating discussion of dramaturgical thinking of the late Enlightenment and the difficult moral problems that the opera raises, this is an important study for scholars and researchers from opera studies, theatre and performance studies, music history as well as conductors, directors and singers. 2021-11-11T11:33:30Z 2021-11-11T11:33:30Z 2022 book ONIX_20211111_9781000510539_6 9781000510539 9781032158334 9780429281709 9780367243203 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51420 eng Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781000510539.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780429281709 10.4324/9780429281709 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb Stockholms Universitet 9781000510539 9781032158334 9780429281709 9780367243203 Routledge 260 open access
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The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni offers an original reading of Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s opera Don Giovanni, using as a lens the portrayal of the title role by its creator, the baritone Luigi Bassi (1766–1825). Although Bassi was coached in the role by the composer himself, his portrayal has never been studied in depth before, and this book presents a large number of new sources (first- and second-hand accounts), which allows us to reconstruct his performance scene by scene. The book confronts Bassi’s portrayal with a study of the opera’s early German reception and performance history, demonstrating how Don Giovanni as we know it today was not only created by Mozart, Da Ponte and Luigi Bassi but also by the early German adapters, translators, critics and performers who turned the title character into the arrogant and violent villain we still encounter in most of today’s stage productions. Incorporating discussion of dramaturgical thinking of the late Enlightenment and the difficult moral problems that the opera raises, this is an important study for scholars and researchers from opera studies, theatre and performance studies, music history as well as conductors, directors and singers.
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