ISBN:
9780190931858
,
019093185X
,
9780195340587
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 401 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
24 cm
Edition:
First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback
DDC:
782.1094709033
Keywords:
Opera 18th century
;
Opera 19th century
;
Empresses History 18th century
;
Women opera producers and directors History 18th century
;
Kings and rulers in opera
;
Women in opera
;
Russland
;
Zarin
;
Musiktheater
;
Nationalismus
;
Kulturpolitik
;
Geschichte 1700-1900
Abstract:
Overture : Russia's imperial prima donnas -- Russian Minervas staging empire -- The play of possibilities : serfs enacting aristocrats, countesses playing peasants -- Catherine the Empress(ario) : making tales into princely operas -- Oleg at the roots of Russian historical opera -- Interlude : to patria and nation -- Ruslan and Liudmila : the princess, the witch, and the dwarf -- Rusalka : water, power, and women -- Mlada and the spellbinding female circle -- Sadko : he is the hero! -- The inescapable Queen
Abstract:
Investigates the musical lives of four female monarchs who ruled Russia for most of the eighteenth century--Catherine I, Anna, Elizabeth, and Catherine the Great
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis Seite 355-380
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