The operetta empire: music theater in early twentieth-century Vienna

"'When the world comes to an end,' Viennese writer Karl Kraus lamented in 1908, 'all the big city orchestras will still be playing The Merry Widow.' Viennese operettas like Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow were preeminent cultural texts during the Austro-Hungarian Empire&#...

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1. Verfasser: Baranello, Micaela 1985- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Abschlussarbeit Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oakland, California University of California Press [2021]
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Zusammenfassung:"'When the world comes to an end,' Viennese writer Karl Kraus lamented in 1908, 'all the big city orchestras will still be playing The Merry Widow.' Viennese operettas like Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow were preeminent cultural texts during the Austro-Hungarian Empire's final years. Alternately hopeful and nihilistic, operetta staged contemporary debates about gender, nationality, and labor. The Operetta Empire delves into this vibrant theatrical culture, whose creators simultaneously sought the respectability of high art and the popularity of low entertainment. Case studies examine works by Lehár, Emmerich Kálmán, Oscar Straus, and Leo Fall in light of current musicological conversations about hybridity and middlebrow culture. Demonstrating a thorough mastery of the complex early twentieth-century Viennese cultural scene, and a sympathetic and redemptive critique of a neglected popular genre, Micaela Baranello establishes operetta as an important element of Viennese cultural life-one whose transgressions helped define the musical hierarchies of its day"--
Beschreibung:xi, 235 Seiten Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele, Karte
ISBN:9780520379121
9780520401228

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