Decoration or dramatic function? : Mozart's use of coloratura in three comic soprano roles
Coloratura arias for soprano were popular with Viennese opera audiences in the late eighteenth century. Prima donnas of the Singspiel and opera buffa companies expected composers to write arias that would display their technical skills, even requesting substitute arias to replace less virtuosic ones...
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2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2338 |