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EDITOR: Jessica Waldoff,
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.
- Presents fresh insights on music, dialogue, and spectacle, and offers a range of new perspectives on topics including the opera's representation of exoticism, race, and gender
- Provides an up-to-date, broad-ranging, and accessible overview of recent scholarly debates and places the opera in its historical and present-day intellectual contexts
- Offers an essential starting point and frame of reference for anyone studying the opera as well as a guide to navigating the complex and often contradictory scholarly literature devoted to it
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EDITOR: Jessica Waldoff,
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.
- Presents fresh insights on music, dialogue, and spectacle, and offers a range of new perspectives on topics including the opera's representation of exoticism, race, and gender
- Provides an up-to-date, broad-ranging, and accessible overview of recent scholarly debates and places the opera in its historical and present-day intellectual contexts
- Offers an essential starting point and frame of reference for anyone studying the opera as well as a guide to navigating the complex and often contradictory scholarly literature devoted to it
