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Loving Mozart Bernhard Lang, ‘Ach, ich fühl’s’ (Grace Moor), I Hate Mozart, Act I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2016

Laura Tunbridge
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Cambridge Opera Journal , Volume 28 , Special Issue 2: Special Issue: Remaking the Aria , July 2016 , pp. 271 - 275
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Laura Tunbridge, University of Oxford; laura.tunbridge@music.ox.ac.uk.

References

1 The generic description is from Stefan Grissemann, ‘Opernbetriebsstörung’; translated as ‘Opera out of Order’ in the programme booklet to Bernhard Lang: ‘I Hate Mozart’, CD and DVD (col legno, 2008), 100. The opera was commissioned by the Wiener Mozartjahr 2006 and premiered at the Theater an der Wien. Michael Sturminger wrote the libretto and directed the production.

2 For more on Lang’s aesthetics, see Dysers, Christine, ‘Bernhard Lang’s I Hate Mozart ’, Musik & Ästhetik 18 (2014), 5–25 Google Scholar; and her ‘Re-writing History: Bernhard Lang’s Monadologie Series (2007–present)’, Tempo 88 (2015), 36–47; and Rögl, Heinz, ‘Interview mit Bernhard Lang II’, Musikmagazin—Neues vom österreichischen Musikgeschehen (7 November 2006)Google Scholar, www.musicaustria.at/magazin/bernhard-lang/interview-mit-bernhard-lang-ii (accessed 1 August 2015). A selection of scenes from I Hate Mozart is available on YouTube, sadly, the aria under discussion here is not included: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftsf8u8OxDA&nohtml5=False (accessed 11 April 2016).

3 Grissemann, Stefan, ‘Opera Out of Order’, 103 Google Scholar.

4 The other most prominently recurring aria-fragments are taken from ‘Dalla sua pace’ from Don Giovanni and ‘Mich schreckt kein Tod’ from Die Zauberflöte. A notable moment of song occurs in the finale of Act II when Adriano sings ‘Komm lieber Mai’ relatively unadorned.

5 Webster, James, ‘Cone’s Personae and the Analysis of Opera’, College Music Symposium 29 (1989), 44–65 Google Scholar.

6 Burnham, Scott, Mozart’s Grace (Princeton, 2013), 25 Google Scholar.

7 Potential intertextual references in ‘Ach, ich fühl’s’ have been explored by Eckelmeyer, Judith A., ‘Two Complexes of Recurrent Melodies Related to Die Zauberflöte ’, The Music Review 31 (1980), 11–15 Google Scholar; and Jan, Steven, ‘The Evolution of a “Memeplex” in Late Mozart: Replicated Structures in Pamina’s “Ach ich fühl’s”’, Journal of the Royal Musical Association 128 (2003), 330–370 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

8 Personal correspondence from 26 October 2013, quoted in Dysers, ‘Bernhard Lang’s I Hate Mozart’, 14.

9 Abbate, Carolyn and Parker, Roger, ‘Dismembering Mozart’, Cambridge Opera Journal 2 (1990), 188 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.