The Cambridge Companion to The Magic Flute
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The Cambridge Companion to The Magic Flute by 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.
Jessica Waldoff is Professor of Music at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. She is the author of Recognition in Mozart's Operas (2006; 2011) and has published extensively on the music of Mozart and his contemporaries.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781108426893 |
| ISBN 10 | 1108426891 |
| Title | The Cambridge Companion to The Magic Flute |
| Author | Jessica Waldoff |
| Series | Cambridge Companions To Music |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2023-11-02 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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