The operetta empire : music theater in early twentieth-century Vienna / Micaela Baranello.
The operetta empire : music theater in early twentieth-century Vienna / Micaela Baranello.
The operetta empire : music theater in early twentieth-century Vienna / Micaela Baranello.
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Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
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G 2021/2260
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English
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xi, 235 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction : operetta in Vienna -- Die lustige Witwe and the birth of silver age Viennese operetta, 1900- -- Sentimentality, satire, and labor -- Hungary, Vienna, and the "gypsy operetta" -- Operetta and the great war -- Exotic liaisons -- Operetta in the past tense.
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Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
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California
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[2021]
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"'When the world comes to an end,' Viennese writer Karl Kraus lamented in 1908, 'all the big city orchestras will still be playing The Merry Widow.' Viennese operettas like Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow were preeminent cultural texts during the Austro-Hungarian Empire's final years. Alternately hopeful and nihilistic, operetta staged contemporary...
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The operetta empire : music theater in early twentieth-century Vienna / Micaela Baranello.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-227) and index.
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G 2021/2260
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74VKaXKmPk4b
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaXKmPk4b
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0520379128
9780520379121
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782.10943613
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991024434621802626
