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Author Ther, Philipp, author.

Title Center stage : operatic culture and nation building in nineteenth-century Central Europe / Philipp Ther ; translated by Charlotte Hughes-Kreutzmuller.

Publication Info. West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Central European studies
Central European studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Opera -- Social aspects -- Germany -- Dresden -- 19th century.
Opera -- Social aspects.
Germany -- Dresden.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Opera.
Opera -- Social aspects -- Germany -- Dresden -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Opera -- Social aspects -- Ukraine -- Lʹviv -- 19th century.
Ukraine -- Lʹviv.
Opera -- Social aspects -- Ukraine -- Lʹviv -- 20th century.
Opera -- Social aspects -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- 19th century.
Czech Republic -- Prague.
Opera -- Social aspects -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- 20th century.
Nationalism in music.
Nationalism in music.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Hughes-Kreutzmuller, Charlotte, translator.
Added Title In der Mitte der Gesellschaft. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2013062634
Other Form: Print version: Ther, Philipp, author. In der Mitte der Gesellschaft. English. Center stage 9781557536754 (DLC) 2013042264 (OCoLC)854609723
ISBN 9781612493305 (electronic book)
1612493300 (electronic book)
9781612493299 (electronic book)
1612493297 (electronic book)
9781557536754
1557536759