Center Stage : Operatic Culture and Nation Building in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe /
"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...
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West Lafayette, Indiana :
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2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Part One; Introduction; Part Two: The Royal Theater in Dresden; 1. Organization and Control of the Royal Theater; 2. Constructing National Culture; 3. Europeanization and Musical Modernism; Part Three: The Polish Theater in Lemberg; 4. Social Foundations; 5. Provincial Opera; Part Four: The Czech National Theater in Prague; 6. Launching the National Theater Project; 7. A Theater for All Classes; 8. The Opera Nation; Part Five: Comparison, Cultural Transfers, and Networks; 9. Opera and Society.
- 10. Nationalizing Opera11. Cultural Exchanges and Europeanization; Bibliography and Sources; Acknowledgments; Index.