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The shadow of the empress : fairy-tale opera and the end of the Habsburg monarchy
- Author / Creator
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- Online
Details
- Creator
- Larry Wolff
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023]
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 435 pages) : illustrations
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781503635647, 1503635651, 9781503634589, 9781503635654
- OCLC
- on1346989083
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Hofmannsthal's Viennese celebrity and Princess Zita's Habsburg marriage -- Emblems of imperial marriage : the golden apple, the silver rose, the human shadow, the dirigible balloon -- Descent from the imperial heights : Karl, Zita, and Hofmannsthal in Galicia -- Marriage and childbirth in the imperial dynasty and the fairy-tale opera : subterranean development and artistic collaboration -- "A traitor wind" : treachery in the opera and in the empire -- Hexentanz : the renunciation of motherhood and the assassination at Sarajevo -- Menschenblut : the sons of Adam and the outbreak of war -- "The shadow hovering in the air" : wartime propaganda, musical patriotism, and operatic collaboration -- "Spirit of the Carpathians" : military service, the preoccupations of wartime, and the trials of separation -- The empress at the threshold : the imminence of catastrophe and the last romantic opera -- Emperor Karl and Empress Zita : imperial motherhood and the pursuit of peace -- Departure from Schönbrunn : the end of the Habsburg monarchy and the rebirth of Austrian culture -- The emperor and the empress : in exile in Switzerland and on stage in Vienna -- Premiere 1919 : Die Frau ohne Schatten, the Märchenkaiser, and the Viennese critics -- Imperial afterlife : the politics of Hungarian Habsburg restoration and Austrian operatic repertory -- "The thread of past time" : imperial survivals and operatic variations in the 1920s -- Nazi Germany and Austrian Anschluss : political and operatic prospects in the 1930s -- The empress in America : escape from Nazi Europe -- The empress returns : Zita and Die Frau ohne Schatten after World War II
Subjects
- Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949. Frau ohne Schatten.
- Zita, Empress, consort of Charles I, Emperor of Austria, 1892-1989.
- Charles I, Emperor of Austria, 1887-1922.
- Habsburg, House of.
- Opera -- Political aspects -- Austria -- History -- 20th century.
- Kings and rulers in opera.
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Austria -- Music.
- Austria -- History -- 1918-1938.