Mozart's Operas (Centennial Books)
"Heartz offers a wealth of profound insights on these immortal  scores,  from which even veteran Mozartians can learn. . . . A triumph of the  publishing  arts."  --Allan Ulrich, San Francisco Examiner"Heartz's style is easy, almost conversational in tone. He has  the great  gift of being able to describe a complex sequence of shifting tonalities  and  textures so lucidly that he makes the drama come excitingly alive in  purely  verbal imagery. . . . A most welcome addition to the classics of the  Mozart  literature."   --Alec Hyatt King, The Musical Times"One of the most important contributions to recent Mozart  research. . .  . I do not think that the complicated process of dealing with  librettists, opera  impresarios, and singers has ever been explained with such lucidity, or  that any  other musicologist has shown so deep an understanding of the various  pressures  on a composer in the composition and mounting of an opera."  --Charles  Rosen, New  York Review of Books"The level of analysis in these essays is so high, their  cumulative  effect so powerful, and the volume so beautifully composed and  illustrated that  one feels deeply grateful to have them gathered together."  --Paul  Robinson,  Historical Performance