Bibliograph

In the public eye, the Budapest Opera House, the audience and the press, 1884 - 1918, Markian Prokopovych

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In the public eye, the Budapest Opera House, the audience and the press, 1884 - 1918, Markian Prokopovych

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

In the public eye

Oclc number

892921753

Responsibility statement

Markian Prokopovych

Series statement

Musikkulturen europäischer Metropolen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, 12

Sub title

the Budapest Opera House, the audience and the press, 1884 - 1918

Summary

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.--, Provided by Publisher

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