Center Stage Operatic Culture and Nation Building in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe

• Hoofdauteur: Ther, Philipp (auth)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: Purdue University Press 2014
• Reeks: Central European Studies
• Onderwerpen: European history; Theatre studies; General & world history; History; European Studies; Slavic Studies; Performing Arts
• Online toegang: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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"...