The shadow of the empress fairy-tale opera and the end of the Habsburg monarchy
The shadow of the empress: fairy-tale opera and the end of the Habsburg monarchy

In 1919 the last Habsburg rulers, Emperor Karl and Empress Zita, left Austria, going into exile. That same year, the fairy-tale opera Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow), featuring a mythological emperor and empress, premiered at the Vienna Opera. Viennese poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal...

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1. Verfasser: Wolff, Larry 1957- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Stanford, California Stanford University Press [2023]
Schlagworte:
Strauss, Richard > 1864-1949 > Die Frau ohne Schatten
Zita > Österreich, Kaiserin > 1892-1989
Karl > I. > Österreich, Kaiser > 1887-1922
Geschichte 1918
HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary
Kings and rulers in opera
Opera > Political aspects > Austria > History > 20th century
World War, 1914-1918 > Austria > Music and the war
World War, 1914-1918 > Austria > Music
Österreich-Ungarn
Online-Zugang:DE-1043
DE-1046
DE-858
DE-859
DE-860
DE-706
DE-739
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Zusammenfassung:In 1919 the last Habsburg rulers, Emperor Karl and Empress Zita, left Austria, going into exile. That same year, the fairy-tale opera Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow), featuring a mythological emperor and empress, premiered at the Vienna Opera. Viennese poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal and German composer Richard Strauss created Die Frau ohne Schatten through the bitter years of World War I, imagining it would triumphantly appear after the victory of the German and Habsburg empires. Instead, the premiere came in the aftermath of catastrophic defeat. The Shadow of the Empress: Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy explores how the changing circumstances of politics and society transformed their opera and its cultural meanings before, during, and after the First World War. Strauss and Hofmannsthal turned emperors and empresses into fantastic fairy-tale characters; meanwhile, following the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy after the war, their real-life counterparts, removed from political life in Europe, began to be regarded as anachronistic, semi-mythological figures. Reflecting on the seismic cultural shifts that rocked post-imperial Europe, Larry Wolff follows the story of Karl and Zita after the loss of their thrones. Karl died in 1922, but Zita lived through the rise of Nazism, World War II, and the Cold War. By the time of her death in 1989, she had herself become a fairy-tale figure, a totem of imperial nostalgia. Wolff weaves together the story of the opera's composition and performance; the end of the Habsburg monarchy; and his own family's life in and exile from Central Europe, providing a rich new understanding of Europe's cataclysmic 20th century, and our contemporary relationship to it
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 435 Seiten) Illustrationen, Karten, Notenbeispiele
ISBN:9781503635654
DOI:10.1515/9781503635654

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