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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's operas comprise 22 musical dramas in a variety of genres. [ a ] They range from the small-scale, derivative works of his youth to the full-fledged operas of his maturity. Three of the works were abandoned before completion and were not performed until many years after the composer's death.
Opera seria. Libretto by Giambattista Varesco. Mozart wrote a ballet to accompany the opera (K. 367), which he himself considered more of a Lullian divertissement. Regarded as Mozart's first "mature" opera, it is one of his earliest operas to still be regularly performed today. 384: 384: Die Entführung aus dem Serail: 1781–82 16 July 1782
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [a] [b] (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition and proficiency from an early age resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time.
The first of the famous series of Mozart operas set to libretti by Lorenzo Da Ponte is now Mozart's most popular opera. [32] 1787 Don Giovanni (Mozart). Second of the operas that Mozart set to Da Ponte's libretti, Don Giovanni has provided a puzzle for writers and philosophers ever since its composition. [32] 1790 Così fan tutte (Mozart).
Works based on operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (6 C, 2 P) C. Così fan tutte (1 C, 1 P) D. Don Giovanni (2 C, 1 P) M. The Magic Flute (3 C, 19 P) The Marriage of ...
The opera was the culmination of a period of increasing involvement by Mozart with Schikaneder's theatrical troupe, which since 1789 had been the resident company at the Theater auf der Wieden. Mozart was a close friend of one of the singer-composers of the troupe, tenor Benedikt Schack (the first Tamino), and had contributed to the ...
[24] Charles Gounod wrote that Mozart's Don Giovanni is "a work without blemish, of uninterrupted perfection." [ 25 ] The finale, in which Don Giovanni refuses to repent , has been a captivating philosophical and artistic topic for many writers including George Bernard Shaw , who in Man and Superman parodied the opera (with explicit mention of ...
Musical quotations are added from the other operas, as Mozart himself had done when Don Giovanni’s house orchestra plays the popular tune of Figaro’s aria. [3] In 2020, Jean-Philippe Clarac and Olivier Delœil produced a cycle commissioned by Peter de Caluwe at the Royal Theatre of La Monnaie, Brussels.