MOZART IN ITALY (PB)

At thirteen years old, the prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had captured the hearts of music lovers across northern Europe. His father, Leopold, was determined his son should now conquer Italy. Together they made three visits, the last when Mozart was seventeen, in which the teenager met the challenge of writing Italian opera for Italian singers and audiences, and provoked responses from adoration and acclamation to suspicion and hostility. Acclaimed conductor Jane Glover recounts Mozart’s Italian adventures in vivid prose.