Recognition in Mozart’s Operas  26083

  • Introduction[rtoc]
    • Recognition: “From Ignorance to Knowledge”
    • Recognition as a New Perspective
    • Figaro’s “Scar” as the Signature of a Fiction[/rtoc]
  1. Operatic Englightenment in Die Zauberflöte[rtoc]
    • Enlightenment as Metaphor
    • Tamino’s recognition: “Wann wird das Licht mein Auge finden?”
    • Pamina, Papageno, and the End of the Opera
    • The “Scandal” of Recognition[/rtoc]
  2. Recognition Scenes in Theory and Practice[rtoc]
    • Recognition in Classical and Contemporary Poetics
    • Recognitions of Identity in Mozart
    • Disguise and Its Discovery
    • The Quest for Self-Discovery
    • What Recognition Brings in the End[/rtoc]
  3. Reading Opera for the Plot[rtoc]
    • Plot in Contemporary Poetics and Opera
    • Plotting in Le nozze di Figaro
    • Mozart and the Plot That Is “Well Worked Out”[/rtoc]
  4. Sentimental Knowledge in La finta giardiniera[rtoc]
    • La “vera” and la “finta” giardiniera
    • Reading Opera “for the Sentiment”
    • Sandrina as “Virtue in Distress”
    • Count Belfiore, Madness, and the Restorative Recognition[/rtoc]
  5. Recognition Denied in Don Giovanni[rtoc]
    • The Problem of the Ending
    • Denouement and Lieto Fine
    • Recognition Prepared and Denied
    • “Life without the Don”[/rtoc]
  6. Sense and Sensibility in Cosi fan tutte[rtoc]
    • Resisting the Ending
    • Reading Cosi “for the Sentiment”
    • The Language of Sentimental Knowledge
    • “Vorrei dir,” “Smanie implacabili,” and Questions of Parody
    • Positions of Knowledge[/rtoc]
  7. Fiordiligi: A Woman of Feeling[rtoc]
    • The Ideal of the Phoenix
    • Fiordiligi, Ferrarese, and “Come scoglio”
    • “Per pietà”: Recognition Denied
    • The Triumph of Feeling over Constancy[/rtoc]
  8. The Sense of the Ending in La clemenza di Tito[rtoc]
    • The Language of Clemenza and Pietà
    • The Politics of Tyranny
    • Vitellia’s Transformation
    • Sesto’s Conflict
    • Tito’s Clemency[/rtoc]
  • Afterword
    • “I Called Him a Papageno”
    • Beyond Mozart

Topics covered by this book

  1. La clemenza di Tito (drama) • p265 • Chapter 8: The Sense of the Ending in La clemenza di Tito
  2. Così fan tutte (drama) • p184 • Chapter 6: Sense and Sensibility in Così fan tutte
  3. Così fan tutte (drama) • p224 • Chapter 7: Fiordiligi: A Woman of Feeling
  4. Le nozze di Figaro (drama) • p88 • Plotting in Le nozze di Figaro
  5. Don Giovanni (drama) • p165 • Chapter 5: Recognition Denied in Don Giovanni
  6. Die Zauberflöte (drama) • p17 • Chapter 2: Operatic Enlightenment in Die Zauberflöte
  7. Le nozze di Figaro (drama) • p10 • Figaro's "Scar" as the "Signature of a Fiction"
  8. Die Zauberflöte (drama) • p17 • Chapter 2: Operatic Enlightenment in Die Zauberflöte
  9. Le nozze di Figaro (drama) • p88 • from Chapter 3: Plotting in Le nozze di Figaro
  10. La finta giardiniera (drama) • p104 • Chapter 4: Sentimental Knowledge in La finta giardiniera
  11. Don Giovanni (drama) • p165 • Chapter 5: Recognition Denied in Don Giovanni
  12. Così fan tutte (drama) • p184 • Chapter 6: Sense and Sensibility in Cosi fan tutte, Chapter 7: Fiordiligi: A Woman of Feeling
  13. Vorrei dir, e cor non ho (music) • p211 • "Vorrei dir," "Smanie implacabili," and Questions of Parody
  14. Smanie implacabili (music) • p211 • "Vorrei dir," "Smanie implacabili," and Questions of Parody
  15. Come scoglio (music) • p229 • Fiordiligi, Ferrarese, and "Come scoglio"
  16. Per pietà (music) • p238 • "Per pietà: Recognition Denied
  17. La clemenza di Tito (drama) • p300 • Chapter 8: The Sense of the Ending in La clemenza di Tito
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