In the Public Eye : The Budapest Opera House, the Audience and the Press, 1884-1918

Markian Prokopovych

ISBN 10: 320577941X / ISBN 13: 9783205779414

Edité par Böhlau Wien Sep 2014, 2014

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Neuware - 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.

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• Titre: In the Public Eye : The Budapest Opera House, the Audience and the Press, 1884-1918
• Éditeur: Böhlau Wien Sep 2014
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: allemand
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 320577941X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783205779414
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 212 L x 147 H x 26 P (en millimètres) 212 millimètres de largeur par 147 millimètres de hauteur par 26 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 510 grammes

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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 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.

À propos de l'auteur

Markian Prokopovych ist Kultur- und Stadthistoriker an der Universität Wien. Zu seinen früheren Publikationen zählt u.a. Habsburg Lemberg: Architecture, Public Space and Politics in the Galician Capital, 1772-1914, Purdue University Press 2009. Markian Prokopovych is a cultural and urban historian at the University of Vienna. His earlier publications, among others, include Habsburg Lemberg: Architecture, Public Space and Politics in the Galician Capital, 1772-1914, Purdue University Press 2009.