Mozart's 'La clemenza di Tito': A Reappraisal

The essays in this book contribute ideas, facts and images that will draw the twenty-first-century reader closer to the events of Central Europe in the late eighteenth century, and these new facts and ideas will help peel off some of the transmitted accretions that may hinder a modern listener from [...]
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The essays in this book contribute ideas, facts and images that will draw the twenty-first-century reader closer to the events of Central Europe in the late eighteenth century, and these new facts and ideas will help peel off some of the transmitted accretions that may hinder a modern listener from enjoying and understanding the opera in all its fullness. In this sense the essays present the reappraisal promised in the title. Praise for Mozart's La clemenza di Tito: A Reappraisal "[The monograph] supplies a wealth of information and thoughts about this opera, which has seldom been treated in such detail. It is a very welcome complement to John A. Rice's 1991 monograph and to Emanuele Senici's 1997 dissertation on the reception of La clemenza di Tito." (Lorenzo Bianconi, Università di Bologna)