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.
| ISBN: | 9780801485893 |
| Publication date: | 30th March 1999 |
| Author: | Peter Kivy |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 317 pages |
| Genres: |
Opera Philosophy: aesthetics Literary studies: plays and playwrights |