Theatergeschichte Österreichs

In the eighteenth century, Italian opera was present in all parts of Europe – constituting a cultural medium which connected courts and centres of power and commerce from Naples to St. Petersburg. Previous research into opera as a European phenomenon has mostly focused on composers, scores and locations, less so on artistic personnel. This increasingly appears as an oversight, given that recent studies concerning the role of the singers in the production process have suggested that the single...

Nikola Batušić (1938–2010), well renowned Croatian theatre scientist, has written this history of the German-speaking theatre in Croatia before the fall of the Berlin Wall. He thus committed the manuscript to the director of the former Commission for Theatre History of the Austrian Academy of Sciences to be printed. With the approval of his daughter and later executer of his will, Ida Raffaelli, the revised manuscript is now released with additional photographic material and updated...

Bei dem vorliegenden Band handelt es sich um die völlig neu bearbeitete, deutschsprachige Ausgabe des Lexikons Starši divadlo v ceských zemich do konce 18. Stoleti – Osobnosti a dila (Paha 2007). Damit erhält das nicht-tschechischprachige Publikum erstmalig Gelegenheit, sich in konzentrierter Form über die Geschichte des Theaters in Böhmen, Mähren und Schlesien von den Anfängen bis zum Ausgang des 18. Jahrhunderts zu informieren. Die ausführlichen und reich dokumentierten Artikel des Lexikons...

Die Studie BERUFSTHEATER IN PRAG 1680-1739" behandelt einen Zeitabschnitt, der von den ersten Anzeichen der Einbürgerung des damals noch hauptsächlich deutschen Berufstheaters bis zur Gründung des ersten ständigen Prager Theaters "In der Kotzen reicht. Dieses Thema bedurfte schon lange einer neuen synthetischen Darstellung, weil Oskar Teuber, vor mehr als hundert Jahren, in der einzigen bisher vorliegenden deutschsprachigen Geschichte des Prager Theaters nur einen Bruchteil des heute...

This book describes the previously unknown history, spanning almost one hundred years (1774-1872), of the Austrian theatre at Lemberg, which, after Prague and Budapest, was the third-largest privincial stage of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. The continued existence of this theatre in a city in which Austrians formed less than 5% of the population, was extremely difficult and precarious, despite massive financial support from the government.

The operatic works of the czech composer Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884), in particular his second opera Prodaná nevĕsta (The Bartered Bride) are of great importance not only for the Czech musical tradition, but also for the Czech national consciousness. Prodaná nevĕsta has served as a model for all subsequent Czech operas and its stylization as a nation´s manifesto has already started during the composer´s lifetime. With this in mind, the authors of this publication have tried to examine its...