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Center stage : operatic culture and nation building in nineteenth-century Central Europe

Title
Center stage : operatic culture and nation building in nineteenth-century Central Europe / Philipp Ther ; translated from the German by Charlotte Hughes-Kreutzmuller.
Author
Ther, Philipp
Publication
West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2014]

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Additional Authors
Hughes-Kreutzmuller, Charlotte
Description
xii, 291 pages : illustrations, music; 23 cm.
Summary
"Grand palaces of culture, opera theaters marked the center of European cities like the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. As opera cast its spell, almost every European city and society aspired to have its own opera house, and dozens of new theaters were constructed in the course of the "long" nineteenth century. At the time of the French Revolution in 1789, only a few, mostly royal, opera theaters, existed in Europe. However, by the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries nearly every large town possessed a theater in which operas were performed, especially in Central Europe, the region upon which this book concentrates. This volume, a revised and extended version of two well-reviewed books published in German and Czech, explores the social and political background to this "opera mania" in nineteenth century Central Europe. After tracing the major trends in the opera history of the period, including the emergence of national genres of opera and its various social functions and cultural meanings, the author contrasts the histories of the major houses in Dresden (a court theater), Lemberg (a theater built and sponsored by aristocrats), and Prague (a civic institution). Beyond the operatic institutions and their key stage productions, composers such as Carl Maria von Weber, Richard Wagner, Bedřich Smetana, Stanisław Moniuszko, Antonín Dvořák, and Richard Strauss are put in their social and political contexts. The concluding chapter, bringing together the different leitmotifs of social and cultural history explored in the rest of the book, explains the specificities of opera life in Central Europe within a wider European and global framework"--
Series Statement
Central European studies
Uniform Title
  • In der Mitte der Gesellschaft. English
  • Central European studies.
Alternative Title
In der Mitte der Gesellschaft.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-284) and index.
Call Number
JME 14-413
ISBN
  • 9781557536754 (pbk.)
  • 1557536759 (pbk.)
  • 9781612493299 (epdf) (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781612493305 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2013042264
OCLC
854609723
Author
Ther, Philipp, author.
Title
Center stage : operatic culture and nation building in nineteenth-century Central Europe / Philipp Ther ; translated from the German by Charlotte Hughes-Kreutzmuller.
Publisher
West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2014]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Central European studies
Central European studies.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-284) and index.
Added Author
Hughes-Kreutzmuller, Charlotte, translator.
Research Call Number
JME 14-413
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