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1 - German Opera in Mozart’s Vienna

from Part I - Conception and Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2023

By
Estelle Joubert
Edited by
Jessica Waldoff
Jessica Waldoff
Affiliation:
College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts
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Summary

This chapter provides an overview of the history, habits, and musico-dramatic conventions of German comic opera in German courtly theaters, the Burgtheater and Kärtnertortheater, and the three suburban theaters: the Theater in der Leopoldstadt, Theater auf der Wieden, and the Theater in der Josephstadt. Arguing for a transnational development of German opera, it delves deeply into paradigmatic examples of key moments in courtly and suburban theatrical life: Ignaz Umlauf’s Die Bergknappen (1778) and its relationship to resource extraction and mining in late eighteenth-century Vienna; Wranitzky’s Oberon (1789) and elements of magic opera in dialogue and in song; and finally, comic antics in Wenzel Müller’s Kaspar der Fagottist (1791).

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BurgtheaterHanswurstIgnaz UmlaufDie BergknappenminingPaul WranitzkyOberonKaspar der FagottistRomanzetransnational opera
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The Cambridge Companion to The Magic Flute , pp. 9 - 29
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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