- Witeschnik, Alexander. Wiener Opernkunst von den Anfängen bis zu Karajan.
Vienna: Kremayr & Scherian, 1959. 332p. ML1723.8 .V6 W55.
Surveys operatic history from the beginnings; illustrated with nine plates and
black-and-white photos and drawings. Bibliography, index. - Wallaschek, Richard. Das K. K. Hofoperntheater. Die Theater Wiens, v.4.
Vienna: Gesellschaft für Vervielfältigende Kunst, 1899–1909. 4v. in 6.
PN2216 .V5 T4.
The fourth volume of a general history of Viennese theater is about opera and
musical life. It includes narrative accounts and performance chronologies for
the Kärntnerthortheater, 1763–1870, and the Hofoperntheater, 1869–1894.
Bibliography of about 130 titles, name and title index. - Kaufman, Thomas G. “Italian Performances in Vienna, 1835–59.” DSJ 4
(1980): 53–72.
Operas and casts of Italian performances at Kärntnerthor by a troupe brought
in by impresario Bartolomeo Merelli. Their season (April–June) was annual,
except for 1848–1850. Events are listed chronologically. - Wellesz, Egon. “Die Opern und Oratorien in Wien von 1600–1708.” Studien
zur Musikwissenschaft6 (1919): 5–138.
A rich narrative account, with a list of about 60 operas given and their dates.
Chapters on instrumental music in the operas, on individual composers
(Badia, Ziani, the Bononcinis), vocal forms, libretti, and aria structure. Musi-
cal examples and notes but no index.
2141.Opera buffa in Mozart’s Vienna.Ed. Mary Hunter and James Webster. New
York: Cambridge U.P., 1997. xii, 459p. ISBN 0-521-57239-8. ML1723.8 .V6
O64.
A valuable collection of essays by various scholars, dealing with the Viennese
context, patrons, audiences, librettists, singers, and set designers of the 75
opere buffestaged in Vienna in 1783–1792 (of the 75, only the three by
Mozart are still in the repertoire). Useful contributions include Marvin Carl-
son, “Il re alla cacciaand Le roi et le fermier: Italian and French Treatments of
Class and Gender”; Edmund J. Goehring, “The Sentimental Muse of opera
buffa”; Michael F. Robinson, “The Alternative Endings of Mozart’s Don Gio-
vanni”; and John Platoff, “Operatic Ensembles and the Problem of the Don
GiovanniSextet.” These are entered separately in this guide: Jessica Waldoff
on the finale in Aristotelian terms (#1310), Sergio Durante on operatic theory
(#411), and James Webster on analysis and unity (#417). Bibliography, expan-
sive index. - Rommel, Otto. Die alt-wiener Volkskomödie. Vienna: A. Schroll, 1952.
1,096p. PN2616 .V5 R6.
The definitive history of stage comedies, comic opera, and operetta in Vienna
from the baroque into the mid–19th century. About 250 illustrations, bibliog-
raphy of some 750 items. Name and title index.
Austria 403