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Don Giovanni's progress : a rake goes to the opera
- Title
- Don Giovanni's progress : a rake goes to the opera / Nino Pirrotta ; translated by Harris S. Saunders, Jr.
- Author
- Pirrotta, Nino.
- Publication
- New York : Marsilio, [1994], [©1994]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | ML410.M9 P4413 1994g | Off-site |
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- Description
- 253 pages : music; 22 cm
- Summary
- A high-ranked but dissolute character invites to dinner the funerary statue of a nobleman he killed in a duel after dishonoring his daughter. Thus the stage is set for the most dreadful of punishments, arguably the central moment in the life of Don Giovanni - one of the most fertile and suggestive myths of Western culture.
- The celebrated character who would captivate Mozart, Byron, Richard Strauss, and Stravinski, among others, comes down to us through a complex history, whose origins are as intriguing as they are seldom explored. In a study both concise and comprehensive, Nino Pirrotta masterfully traces the roots of the Don Giovanni legend in the European musical theater.
- Beginning with the seventeenth-century play by the Spanish author Tirso de Molina, El burlador de Sevilla, Pirrotta examines the major stage productions that were to lead to Mozart's unparalleled version, reconstructed here in a riveting, scene-by-scene analysis.
- Conceived as a book for non-specialists, Don Giovanni's Progress far exceeds these boundaries, as in discursive presentation delivers a sophisticated discussion of performing strategies and musical scores.
- What also emerges from Pirrotta's study is a vivid account of the human resources that came into play over the many decades of artistic collaborations, frequent borrowings, and unique fascination for this "sublime" yet doomed character - in all, a prime contribution to the history of music and literature.
- Uniform Title
- Don Giovanni in musica. English
- Alternative Title
- Don Giovanni in musica.
- Subject
- Note
- Translation of: Don Giovanni in musica.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 0941419711
- OCLC
- ocm31695439
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries