The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna: A Poetics of Entertainment

From: Current Musicology | Date: April 1, 2000| Author: Monson, Dale E | Copyright information

Mary Hunter. The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna: A Poetics of Entertainment. Princeton University Press, 1999. xiii, 329 pp.

Reviewed by Dale E. Monson

In 1997, Mary Hunter and James Webster edited a series of essays for Cambridge University Press entitled Opera buffa in Mozart's Vienna. Two years later, Hunter borrowed and emended that title for her own monograph, The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna: A Poetics of Entertainment, a work that won the America...

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