Mahler: Symphony No. 4. (Seiji Ozawa, Boston Symphony )

From: National Review | Date: April 7, 1989| Author: de Toledano, Ralph | Copyright information

THE ITALIANS of Mozart's time made a sharp distinction between opera buffa and opera seria. Mozart, in his two greatest operas, Don Giovanni and Le Nozze di Figaro, rose above boththough if they are comedy, it is only in Balzac's sense of comedie humaine. Le Nozze was roughly based on Beaumarchais's Le Mariage de Figaro, but from this Mozart and his librettist, Lorenzo da Ponte, created what Stendhal described as a "sublime blend of wit and melancholy." The blend is such that it ...

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