Table of Contents: “…Mozart at play ; The hidden center ; Between incoherence and inauthenticity : Don Giovanni and Faust ; Die Zauberflöte, or the self-assertion of the moderns -- Postlude : between utopia and melancholy : Beethoven and the aesthetic state.…”

Table of Contents: “…Wenzel Mihule and Don Giovanni ; Die Zauberflöte and Czech National Theater.…”
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Table of Contents: “…From Rossini's Mose to Verdi's Nabucco -- 2. Verdi and Don Giovanni: On the Opening Scene of Rigoletto -- 3. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Baumol and Hilda Baumol -- Mozart was a working stiff / Neal Zaslaw -- The challenge of blank paper : Mozart the composer / Christoph Wolff -- Marianne Mozart : "carissima sorella mia" / Maynard Solomon -- Mozart's piano concertos and their audience / Joseph Kerman -- Mozart's tunes and the comedy of closure / Wye J. Allanbrook -- Don Giovanni against the baroque; or, the culture punished / Michael P. …”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the difference is they sing -- Singing Greek tragedy -- When opera was still serious -- Ariosto and his children -- Don Giovanni : the impossible opera -- What Peter Sellars did to Mozart -- Norma : the case for bel canto -- Hugo sung and unsung : or why we put up with dumb opera plots -- Sex and religion in French opera -- Nuremberg used and abused -- Whatever became of the breastplates? …”
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Table of Contents: “…The birth of opera from the spirit of Orpheus -- Du musst dein Leben ändern : Orfeo ed Euridice -- The opera of all operas : Don Giovanni -- The music of intuitive angels : The magic flute -- Music to set the spirit free : Fidelio -- Show business sense : L'elisir d'amore -- Oh, sweet music of Donizetti! …”

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Table of Contents: “…The nature of opera : entry for The New Grove Dictionary of Opera -- Mozart's comedies and the sense of an ending -- Mozart's Figaro : a question of class? -- Don Giovanni as an idea -- Passion and cynicism : remarks on Così fan tutte -- Rather red than black : Verdi, Don Carlos and the passion for freedom -- Tristan and time -- The elusiveness of pessimism : responding to the Ring -- Wagner and the transcendence of politics -- L'envers des destinées : remarks on Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande -- Manifest artifice : the ingenuity of Puccini -- Comments on Opera and ideas : from Mozart to Strauss / by Paul Robinson -- The Marriage and the Flute : Tippett and Mozart -- Janáček's modernism : doing less with more in music and philosophy -- Authenticity and re-creation : musicology, performance and production -- Naïve and sentimental opera lovers.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Existential melancholia: the affective psychology of the "Diapsalmata" in Either/or / Rick Anthony Furtak and Ruth Rebecca Tietjen -- Don Giovanni and the musical-erotic / Fred Rush -- For what may the aesthete hope? …”

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Table of Contents: “…(Continued) Czech Republic : The pink scarf / Bohumil Hrabal -- The unborn / Eda Kriseova -- He wakes up / Alexandra Berkova -- Brownian motion / Ondrej Neff -- Slovakia : Escalation of feeling -- Pavel Vilikovsky -- Memorial to Don Giovanni / Jan Johanides -- On the threshold/ Dusan Mitana -- The white dog / Rudolf Sloboda -- Bulgaria : Desires: the erotica of Communism / Ivailo Dichev -- Big business / Victor Paskov -- My past, my future / Ivan Kulekov -- A Bulgarian tourist chats to an English pigeon in Trafalgar Square / Stanislav Stratiev --(to be continued)…”

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Table of Contents: “…Hoffmann: Life and Credentials; 3 Ritter Gluck: A Recollection from the Year 1809 (Hoffmann); 4 Five Romantic Concepts; 5 Baroness Seraphina (Hoffmann); 6 Inspiritrice; 7 Ombra adorata (Hoffmann); 8 A Romanticist's Don Giovanni; 9 Don Juan: A Fabulous Incident which Befell a Travelling Enthusiast (Hoffmann); 10 Composers; 11 Beethoven's Instrumental Music (Hoffmann); 12 The Critic; 13 Ancient and Modern Church Music (Hoffmann); 14 The Absolute Musician: Johannes Kreisler; 15 Of Kapellmeister Johannes Kreisler's Musical Sorrows (Hoffmann)…”
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Table of Contents: “…The birth of opera from the spirit of Orpheus -- Du musst dein Leben ändern : Orfeo ed Euridice -- The opera of all operas : Don Giovanni -- The music of intuitive angels : The magic flute -- Music to set the spirit free : Fidelio -- Show business sense : L'elisir d'amore -- Oh, sweet music of Donizetti! …”
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Table of Contents: “…The Imposture of Beauty: The Uncanniness of Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray; 2. Don Giovanni, or the Art of Disappointing One's Admirers; 3. …”
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Table of Contents: “…First letter' ; Review of Mozart's Don Giovanni, 20 September 1815 ; Review of Mehul's Ariodant, 1 June 1816 ; 'Some observations on the comments made by the Royal Chamber singer Herr Fischer ; 'A letter from kapellmeister Johannes Kreisler (contributed by E.T.A. …”

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Table of Contents: “…Anthony -- Goethe's Faust -- Cocaine and the Devil -- Thornton's Cocaine Thesis -- Milton's Paradise Lost -- Mozart's Don Giovanni -- Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris -- The Interpretation of Dreams: Rome, Malleus Maleficarum, Witchcraft, and Related Themes -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five. …”