%0 PDF %T Konstanze Acting Out in Mozart's 'Die Entführung aus dem Serail'. %A Lobosco, Rebekah. %8 2017-04-18 %R http://localhost/files/q237j4584 %X Abstract: This thesis focuses on Konstanze in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, tracing the development of her persona in Act II. It considers the different factors that contributed to the formation of the character, including an exploration of Christoph Friedrich Bretzner's original libretto, the alterations made by Mozart and his librettist Gottlieb Stephanie the Younger, and the vocal abilities of Caterina Cavalieri, who created the role. The most dramatic change in Act II was the insertion of the show-stopping aria di bravura, "Martern aller Arten," right after Konstanze's lament aria. Unusual for Mozart's operas, these back-to-back arias can be viewed as a type of gran scena, which bestows on Konstanze an emotional complexity that does not exist with any other Singspiel heroine. The thesis then concludes with a close reading of the 2004 Oper Frankfurt production, directed by Christof Loy and featuring Diana Damrau as Konstanze.; Thesis (M.A.)--Tufts University, 2012.; Submitted to the Dept. of Music.; Advisor: Jane Bernstein.; Committee: Alessandra Campana, and Jessica Waldoff.; Keywords: Music, and Gender studies. %[ 2022-10-13 %9 Text %~ Tufts Digital Library %W Institution