Neil McCauley
19-09-2016, 07:32
Mozart’s work list is littered with incomplete projects, from pieces that are regularly performed in their unfinished state, such as the C minor Mass and the Requiem, to works for which the surviving material is too sketchy or skeletal to be really meaningful, including projected stage works such as Lo Sposo Deluso and L’Oca del Cairo. What there is of Zaide is more substantial. In 1779, Mozart started work on a Singspiel that, like Die Entführung aus dem Serail (which he began the following year), was to be set in a seraglio. By the time he had .........
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/14/mozart-zaide-review-bevan-clayton-imbrailo-classical-opera-orchestra-page-signum-cd
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/14/mozart-zaide-review-bevan-clayton-imbrailo-classical-opera-orchestra-page-signum-cd