{"id":542,"date":"2026-01-12T20:19:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/figarofiles\/?page_id=542"},"modified":"2026-02-02T16:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:38:09","slug":"learn-more","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/figarofiles\/learn-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn More"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See below for our main references used in researching the content for this website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Beaumarchais Play<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Le mariage de Figaro<\/em> (1784) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Le_Mariage_de_Figaro\">play in French<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/64953\">play in English<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Coward, David. 2003. Translator. <em>Beaumarchais: The Figaro Trilogy<\/em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Da Ponte Libretto<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>complete libretto Italian\/English &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.murashev.com\/opera\/Le_nozze_di_Figaro_libretto_English_Italian\">DM&#8217;s opera site, murashev.com<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>individual numbers translated: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vmii.org\/k-492-le-nozze-di-figaro?r=%2F&amp;ref=bc\">Vocal Music Instrumentation Index<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fisher, Burton. 2001. <em>Mozart&#8217;s The Marriage of Figaro <\/em>[libretto]. Trans. and ed. Fisher. Opera Classics Library Series. Coral Gables, FL: Opera Journeys.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Mozart Score<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mozart, <em>Le nozze di Figaro<\/em>, K. 492 (1786) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/imslp.org\/wiki\/Le_nozze_di_Figaro,_K.492_(Mozart,_Wolfgang_Amadeus)\">full and vocal score, various editions, arrangements, etc. at IMSLP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Websites and Audio-Visual Media<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=smoT72cbpRo&amp;t=12s\">2021 production of Beaumarchais&#8217; <em>Le mariage de Figaro<\/em> by Compagnie Colette Roumanoff<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Secondary Sources<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our two main secondary sources in the course were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Allanbrook, Wye Jamison. 1983. <em>Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro &amp; Don Giovanni. <\/em>Chicago: University of Chicago Press.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hunter, Mary. 1999. <em>The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart&#8217;s Vienna: A Poetics of Entertainment<\/em>. Princeton: Princeton University Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Other sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Andrews, Richard. 2001. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/3526059.\">From Beaumarchais to Da Ponte: A New View of the Sexual Politics of \u2018Figaro<\/a>.\u2019\u201d <em>Music &amp; Letters<\/em> 82\/2: 214\u201333. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Angerm\u00fcller, Rudolph. 1988. <em>Mozart&#8217;s Operas.<\/em> Trans. Stewart Spencer. New York: Rizzoli.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Barnes, Clifford. 2001. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/gmo\/9781561592630.article.29082\">Vaudeville<\/a>.&#8221; <em>Grove Music Online<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>B\u00f6ker-Heil, Norbert, et al. 2001. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/gmo\/9781561592630.article.16611\">Lied<\/a>.&#8221; <em>Grove Music Online.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brown, Bruce Alan. 1986. \u201cBeaumarchais, Mozart and the Vaudeville: Two Examples from \u2018The Marriage of Figaro.\u2019\u201d <em>The Musical Times<\/em> 127\/1718: 261-265. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2307\/965457\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2307\/965457<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brown, Bruce Alan. 1991. <em>Gluck and the French Theatre in Vienna<\/em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Butler, Judith. 1993. &#8220;Critically Queer,\u201d <em>GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, <\/em>1\/1: 17-32. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi-org.proxy.mtholyoke.edu:2443\/10.1215\/10642684-1-1-17\">https:\/\/doi-org.proxy.mtholyoke.edu:2443\/10.1215\/10642684-1-1-17<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Carter, Tim. 1987. <em>W. A. Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro.<\/em> Cambridge University Press.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dittrich, Marie-Agnes. 2004. \u201cThe Lieder of Schubert.\u201d In <em>The Cambridge Companion to the Lied<\/em>, ed. James Parsons. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dodds, Jerrilynn Denise, ed. 1992. <em>al-Andalus: The art of Islamic Spain<\/em>. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dodds, Jerrilynn Denise, et al. 2008, <em>The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture<\/em>. New Haven: Yale University Press.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Downes, Edward O. D. 1961. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/829465\">&#8216;Secco&#8217; Recitative in Early Classical Opera Seria (1720-80)<\/a>,&#8221; <em>Journal of the American Musicological Society, <\/em>14\/1: 50-69.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fern\u00e1ndez-Armesto, et. al. 2003, rev. 2022. &#8220;Seville.&#8221; <em>Grove Art Online<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hart, James D. 1986. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordreference.com\/view\/10.1093\/acref\/9780195047714.001.0001\/acref-9780195047714-e-1164\">Local Color<\/a>.&#8221; In <em>Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature<\/em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press. OxfordReference.com.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Heck, Thomas F., et al. 2001. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmusiconline.com\/grovemusic\/view\/10.1093\/gmo\/9781561592630.001.0001\/omo-9781561592630-e-0000043006\">Guitar<\/a>.&#8221; <em>Grove Music Online<\/em>. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jander, Owen, rev. Ellen T. Harris. 2001. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/gmo\/9781561592630.article.02234\">Bass-Baritone<\/a>.&#8221; <em>Grove Music Online<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jander, Owen and Ellen T. Harris. 2001. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/gmo\/9781561592630.article.03911\">Breeches part<\/a>.&#8221; <em>Grove Music Online<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Langford, Jeffrey. 2011. <em>Evenings at the Opera: An Exploration of the Basic Repertoire<\/em>. Milwaukee: Amadeus Press.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Levenson, Erica P. 2023. \u201c\u2018Theatre as a Nursery of Language\u2019: Learning French through Vaudeville Tunes in Eighteenth-Century England.\u201d <em>Eighteenth Century Music<\/em> 20\/1: 13\u201331. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/S147857062200034\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/S147857062200034<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Link, Dorothea. 2008a. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/30161417\">The Fandango Scene in Mozart\u2019s <em>Le Nozze Di Figaro<\/em><\/a>,\u201d <em>Journal of the Royal Musical Association<\/em> 133\/1: 69-92.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Link, Dorothea. 2008b. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/25478484.\">Performing the Fandango in Mozart\u2019s \u2018Le Nozze di Figaro&#8217;<\/a>,\u201d <em>Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society<\/em> 152\/2: 167-178.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Link, Dorothea. 2022. <em>The Italian Opera Singers in Mozart\u2019s Vienna.<\/em> Urbana: University of Illinois Press.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u200b\u200bLinklater, Christina. 2015. \u201cVagaries of the Vaudeville: Notated Music in French Opera Librettos, 1753\u20131779.\u201d <em>The Library Quarterly<\/em> 85\/2: 200\u2013205.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mayer, Constance. 2004. \u201cReview of Dorothea Link, <em>Arias for Nancy Storace, Mozart\u2019s First Susanna <\/em>[2002].\u201d <em>Notes<\/em> 60\/4: 1032-1034.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mitchells, K. 1970. \u201cOperatic Characters and Voice Type.\u201d <em>Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association<\/em> 97: 47\u201358.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Monson, Dale E., Jack Westrup, and Julian Budden. 2001. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/gmo\/9781561592630.article.23019\">Recitative<\/a>.&#8221; <em>Grove Music Online<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Packer, Dorothy S. 1970. \u201c\u2018La Calotte\u2019 and the 18th-Century French Vaudeville.\u201d <em>Journal of the American Musicological Society<\/em> 23\/1: 61\u201383. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2307\/830348. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Parsons, James. 2004. \u201cThe Eighteenth-Century Lied.\u201d In <em>The Cambridge Companion to the Lied<\/em>, ed. Parsons. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>P\u00e9rez, Manuel Casamar. 1992. &#8220;The Almoravids and the Almohads: An Introduction.&#8221; In <em>al-Andalus: The art of Islamic Spain<\/em>, ed. Jerilynn Denise Dodds. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art\u202f.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reynolds, Margaret. 2001. \u201cRuggiero\u2019s Deceptions, Cherubino\u2019s Distractions,&#8221; in <em>En Travesti: Women, Gender Subversion, Opera<\/em>. Ed. Corinne E. Blackmer and Patricia Juliana Smith. New York: Columbia University Press.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rosselli, John. 2001. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/gmo\/9781561592630.article.05146\">Castrato<\/a>.&#8221; <em>Grove Music Online<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rushton, Julian. 2002. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/gmo\/9781561592630.article.O003136\">Nozze di Figaro, Le<\/a>.\u201d <em>Grove Music Online.<\/em> 1992, published online 2002.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Steane, J. B. 2002. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/gmo\/9781561592630.article.O003863\">Fach<\/a>.&#8221; <em>Grove Music Online<\/em>. 1992, published online 2002.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Steane, J. B. 2002. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/gmo\/9781561592630.article.O002496\">Lyric soprano<\/a>.&#8221; <em>Grove Music Online<\/em>. 1992, published online 2002. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Strohmeier, Sophie Gertrude. 2022. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wqxr.org\/story\/pants-roles-gender-fluidity-queer-undertones-opera\/\">Pants Roles: Gender Fluidity and Queer Undertones in Opera<\/a>,\u201d <em>WQXR<\/em> <em>Features<\/em> (June 1, 2022).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thomas, Hugh. 2006. <em>Beaumarchais in Seville: An Intermezzo<\/em>. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wheeldon, Daniel. 2017. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/essays\/the-spanish-guitar\">The Spanish Guitar<\/a>,\u201d <em>Timeline of Art History: The Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/figarofiles\/\">Home<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See below for our main references used in researching the content for this website. 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