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Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction Mary Hunter andJames Webster; Part I. Historical and Literary Contexts: 1. Goldoni, operabuffa, and Mozart's advent in Vienna Daniel Heartz; 2. Lo specchio francese:Viennese opera buffa and the legacy of French theatre Bruce Alan Brown; 3. Ilre alla caccia and Le roi et le fermier: Italian and French treatments ofclass and gender Marvin Carlson; 4. Mozart and eighteenth-century comedyPaolo Gallarati; Part II. Social and Generic Meanings: 5. The sentimentalmuse of opera buffa Edmund J. Goehring; 6. The biology lessons of operabuffa: gender, nature, and Bourgeois society on Mozart's buffa stage TiaDenora; 7. Bourgeois values and Opera Buffa in 1780's Vienna Mary Hunter; 8.Opera seria? Opera buffa? Genre and style as sign Marita P. McLymonds; 9.Figaro as misogynist: on aria types and aria rhetoric Ronald J. Rabin; 10.The alternative endings of Mozart's Don Giovanni Michael F. Robinson; 11. DonGiovanni: recognition denied Jessica Waldoff; Part III. Analytical andMethodological Issues: 12. Analysis and dramaturgy: reflections towards atheory of Opera Sergio Durante; 13. Understanding opera buffa: analysis =interpretation James Webster; 14. Operatic ensembles and the problem of theDon Giovanni sextet John Platoff; 15. Buffo roles in Mozart's Vienna:tessitura and tonality as signs of characterization Julian Rushton; List ofworks cited; Index.