Daponte Operas (1 gen 1785 anni – 1 gen 1790 anni)

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The “Da Ponte” Operas
1. After Die Entführung, Mozart did not compose another opera for four years.
2. After several years of being thwarted from working with Lorenzo da Ponte, Mozart
was able to collaborate with him in 1785. The result was the comedy The Marriage of Figaro.
a. Based on the play by Beaumarchais, the basic plot of Figaro resembles that of
La serva padrona, except in this version the servants and nobility are all likeable characters.
b. Mozart associates serious music traditionally given to noble characters to the servants and vice versa.
c. In the second-act finale he expands a duet to a septet over the course of twenty
minutes.
4. The success of Figaro prompted more collaborations between Mozart and Da Ponte;
the next was Don Giovanni. This opera famously features 3 dances overlapping and intertwining with each other.
a. The opera features continual intertwinings of comedy and tragedy.
5. The third and final Da Ponte collaboration was Così fan tutte (1790).

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