In the public eye
| Titel: | In the public eye : the Budapest Opera House, the audience and the press, 1884 - 1918 / Markian Prokopovych |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Wien : Böhlau, 2014 |
| Umfang: | 350 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 21 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Musikkulturen europäischer Metropolen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert ; 12 |
| Hochschulschrift: | Habilitationsschrift, Universität Wien, 2012 |
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| ISBN: | 9783205779414 ; 320577941X |
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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 Bela Bartok 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.
