SKU: BA.BVK01874
Opera and
enlightenment in late
18th century Vienna.
Composed by Herbert
Lachmayer and Reinhard
Eisendle. In a case.
Book. 254 pages.
Baerenreiter Verlag
#BVK01874_00. Published
by Baerenreiter Verlag
(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.
