Acknowledgments

A Note on the Currency Used in Mozart’s Vienna

The Establishment and Management of the Italian Opera Company at the Vienna Court Theater

Classification of Operatic Roles, Voice Types, and Singing Styles

Casting Information in Scores and Librettos of the Operas Produced in the Italian Company, 1783-91

Nancy Storace: The Italian Company, 1783-84

Nancy Storace: The Company Stabilizes, 1784-85

Nancy Storace’s Annus Horribilis and Celeste Coltellini, 1785-86

Nancy Storace’s Exuberant Year, 1786-87

Anna Morichelli Comes and Goes, 1787-88

Luisa Laschi: The Year of the Three Prima Donnas, 1788-89

Adriana Ferrarese: Opera on a Shoestring, 1789-90

Adriana Ferrarese: Portents of Change, 1790-91

A Neapolitan Prima Donna and the End of Josephine Opera, 1791-92

Appendix A. Roles of Ten Major Singers

Appendix B. A Tale of Four Scores

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Dorothea Link is professor emerita of musicology at the University of Georgia. Her books include The National Court Theatre in Mozart's Vienna, Sources and Documents, 1783-1792 and Arias for Stefano Mandini, Mozart’s First Count Almaviva.

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"Dorothea Link crowns her research into Italian opera in Josephine Vienna by exposing systematically, season by season, the hierarchy of stars and lesser singers and the politics of their terms of employment: a book for scholars to treasure and enjoy."--Julian Rushton, author of Mozart

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