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Grand palaces of culture and opera theaters became central to European cities, akin to the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. As opera gained popularity, nearly every European city aspired to have its own opera house, leading to the construction of numerous theaters during the "long" nineteenth century. At the time of the French Revolution in 1789, only a few royal opera theaters existed, but by the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, almost every large town had a theater for opera, particularly in Central Europe, the focus of this volume. This revised and extended work delves into the social and political backdrop of the "opera mania" in nineteenth-century Central Europe. It traces major trends in opera history, including the rise of national genres and their social functions, while contrasting the histories of significant theaters in Dresden, Lemberg, and Prague. The book also contextualizes composers like Carl Maria von Weber, Richard Wagner, Bedřich Smetana, Stanisław Moniuszko, Antonín Dvořák, and Richard Strauss within their societal and political environments. The concluding chapter synthesizes the various themes of social and cultural history, elucidating the unique aspects of opera life in Central Europe within a broader European and global context.
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Center stage, Philipp Ther
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- 2014
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