In the Public Eye
The Budapest Opera House, the Audience and the Press, 1884-1918
1st Edition
Published on 19. August 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
350 pages
978-3-205-77941-4 (ISBN)
Description
During the 1884 inauguration of the Royal Hungarian Opera House in Budapest, political elites staged a gala concert in the auditorium while the angry crowd, excluded from this ceremony, demonstrated on the street. In 1917, the crowds queuing to a Béla Bartók premiere needed to be forcibly held back. The book follows the history of the contested institution through a series of scandals, public protests, repertoire controversies and their representation in the urban press of the time. Such conflicts often led to larger issues that concerned the Opera House as a music institution, the birth of the modern public sphere and the modern audience. Thereby, the book calls for a critical rethinking of the cultural history of Budapest and Hungary in the late Habsburg Monarchy.
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Markian Prokopovych ist Kultur- und Stadthistoriker an der Universität Wien. Zu seinen früheren Publikationen zählt u.a. Habsburg Lemberg: Architecture, Public Space and Politics in the Galician Capital, 1772-1914, Purdue University Press 2009. Markian Prokopovych is a cultural and urban historian at the University of Vienna. His earlier publications, among others, include Habsburg Lemberg: Architecture, Public Space and Politics in the Galician Capital, 1772-1914, Purdue University Press 2009.
Content
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1
Stages of Construction, 1870-1884: The Idea of Opera House and the Urban Press
Chapter 2
Imperial Experiment, 1884: The Inauguration Scandal and the Theatre Crowd
Chapter 3
Modernity Looming: Eroticism, Progress, Political Order and the Ballet Excelsior, 1887
Chapter 4
National Experiment, 1887: Giuseppe Verdi, the Famous Hungarian
Chapter 5
Stylistic Challenge, 1889: Gustav Mahler and the International Operetta
Chapter 6
Commemorating Celebrity, 1893: Bánk bán and Other Matters.
Ferenc Erkel's Legacy
Chapter 7
Another Stylistic Challenge, 1901. From Gypsy Music to Wagner without a Transition
Chapter 8
Empire Triumphant, 1905: Johann Strauss and Der Zigeunerbaron
Chapter 9
Modernity Arriving, 1912: Richard Strauss's Salome in Budapest
Chapter 10
Calls of Fatherland, 1916: Karl Goldmark and the New Public
Chapter 11
Modernity Triumphant, 1917: Béla Bartók's Wooden Prince and Bluebeard's Castle
Chapter 12
Conclusion
Bibliography
List of Intendants and Directors of the Opera House, 1884-1918
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1
Stages of Construction, 1870-1884: The Idea of Opera House and the Urban Press
Chapter 2
Imperial Experiment, 1884: The Inauguration Scandal and the Theatre Crowd
Chapter 3
Modernity Looming: Eroticism, Progress, Political Order and the Ballet Excelsior, 1887
Chapter 4
National Experiment, 1887: Giuseppe Verdi, the Famous Hungarian
Chapter 5
Stylistic Challenge, 1889: Gustav Mahler and the International Operetta
Chapter 6
Commemorating Celebrity, 1893: Bánk bán and Other Matters.
Ferenc Erkel's Legacy
Chapter 7
Another Stylistic Challenge, 1901. From Gypsy Music to Wagner without a Transition
Chapter 8
Empire Triumphant, 1905: Johann Strauss and Der Zigeunerbaron
Chapter 9
Modernity Arriving, 1912: Richard Strauss's Salome in Budapest
Chapter 10
Calls of Fatherland, 1916: Karl Goldmark and the New Public
Chapter 11
Modernity Triumphant, 1917: Béla Bartók's Wooden Prince and Bluebeard's Castle
Chapter 12
Conclusion
Bibliography
List of Intendants and Directors of the Opera House, 1884-1918
Index