| Summary: | 碩士 === 東吳大學 === 音樂學系 === 96 === Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), the Austrian composer in the 18th century, played an extremely important role in the music history. The opera “Die Entführung aus dem Serail” (K. 384), especially, showed us all Mozart’s charming talent. This composition also stood for the mile stone during his years, and became the foundation of his other operas afterwards.
In “Die Entführung aus dem Serail”, besides the leading female role Konstanze, there is another one sung by soprano—the maid Blonde, which is mainly studied in this thesis consisted of four chapters. In the first chapter, the lifetime of Mozart is introduced, as well as his overall composition of operas. The opera “Die Entführung aus dem Serail” is studied in the second chapter, including the background of composing, the overview of the leading roles, and the story itself. Blonde the role is discussed in chapter three, and all the details are studied—her character and personality, the role’s feature in this play, and how this person affected others as a whole; following in the same chapter, two arias sung by Blonde are analyzed and interpreted. In chapter four, two different maid roles in Mozart’s other operas are described—Susanna in “Le nozze di Figaro” (K. 492) and Despina in “Così fan tutte” (K. 588); then all these three female roles are studied and compared to get the general ideas of maid roles in Mozart’s operas, and to discuss about the significance of his musical use on this kind of characters.
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