Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart's Figaro, Don Giovanni and Cosi fan tutte

Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment explains how Mozart''s music for Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte ''sounds'' the intentions of Da Ponte''s characters and their relationships with one another. Mozart, by way of the infinitely generative and beautiful logic of the sonata principle, did not merely interpret Da Ponte''s characterizations but lent them temporal, musical forms...