Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-419) and index.
L'Académie royale de musique -- Opéra-comique -- Italian serious genres -- Italian comic genres -- German musical theater -- The supernatural in the operas of Mozart.
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Drawing on hundreds of operas, singspiels, ballets, and plays with supernatural themes, Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests argues that the tension between fantasy and Enlightenment-era rationality shaped some of the most important works of eighteenth-century musical theater and profoundly influenced how audiences and critics responded to them. David J. Buch reveals that despite-and perhaps even because of-their fundamental irrationality, fantastic and exotic themes acquired extraordinary force and popularity during the period, pervading theatrical works with music in the French, German, and It.
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Magic flutes and enchanted forests
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus,1756-1791., Zauberflöte.