An Analysis Of The Female Characters In Mozart 's Opera

Mozart, one of the representative figures of European Vienna classical music, is a great Austria composer. In his lifetime, he created six hundred and twenty-two music pieces, which were all kinds of musical forms, especially in opera creation. In his 35 years lifetime, Mozart devoted 25 years to opera creation. In total, he created twenty-two opera pieces, in which thirty-one soprano roles and fifty-eight arias were involved. Mozart was good at shaping the characters that he could describe every character alive.This paper analyzed female characters in Mozart’s operas through “Le Nozze di Figaro”, “Don Giovanni " and “Cosi Fan Tutte". From two aspects, analysis was aimed at female noble characters and female civilian characters. The reason of this paper adopted these three opera pieces was that they belong to the same musical formthe comic opera, and the three opera pieces were achieved by cooperation of Mozart and Da ponte.This paper can be divided to three parts. Creation profiles of Mozart’s three operas “Le Nozze di Figaro”, “Don Giovanni " and “Cosi Fan Tutte" were the first part. There were two sections in the first part, the creation background and content summary of these three operas. The second part was focused on analysis on female characters. There were two primary characters- female noble characters and female civilian characters. Characteristic of female characters in these three operas was analyzed through these female characters’ arias, including noble characters-Rosina in “Le Nozze di Figaro”, Anna in “Don Giovanni ", sisters Fiordiligi and Dorabella in “Cosi Fan Tutte" and female civilian characters-Susanna in “Le Nozze di Figaro”, Zerlina in “Don Giovanni ", Daspina in “Cosi Fan Tutte ". And then the third part compared the three different opera versions deducted by three different singers.