Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests

Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations 
 
Introduction
Precedents & Sources of Magic & the “Marvelous”
 
1 L’Académie Royale de Musique
2 Opéra-comique
3 Italian Serious Genres
4 Italian Comic Genres
5 German Musical Theater
6 The Supernatural in the Operas of Mozart 
 
Postscript
The Significance & Influence of Supernatural Topics
 
Appendix A: Chronological List of Operas, Ballets, Comédies, Féeries, Pantomimes & Other Plays with Magic & Supernatural Content, 1699–1791
Appendix B: Selected Italian Circe, Medea & Orpheus Operas, 1700–1791
Appendix C: Operas Based on Ariosto & Tasso, 1700–1791
Appendix D: Some Eighteenth-Century Italian Don Juan Settings
Appendix E: Chronological List of German Theatrical Works with Magic & Supernatural Content, 1728–92
Bibliography
Index