Osmin's Rage
Philosophical Reflections on Opera, Drama, and Text| By: | Peter Kivy |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
| Print ISBN: | 9780801485893 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781501727405 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 1999 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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In his new concluding chapter, Peter Kivy advances his argument on behalf of a distinctive intellectual and musical character of opera before Mozart. He proposes that happy endings were a musical—as opposed to a dramatic—necessity for opera during this period and that Mozart's Idomeneo is properly enjoyed and judged only when listeners are attuned to its seventeenth and eighteenth-century forebears.