The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna: A Poetics of EntertainmentMozart's comic operas are among the masterworks of Western civilization, and yet the musical environment in which Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte wrote these now popular operas has received little critical attention. In this richly detailed book, Mary Hunter offers a sweeping, synthetic view of opera buffa in the lively theatrical world of late eighteenth century Vienna. Opera buffa (Italian language comic opera) persistently entertained