TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - The shadow of the empress : fairy-tale opera and the end of the Habsburg monarchy
A1  - Wolff, Larry, kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5688822
AB  - "In 1919 the last Habsburg rulers, Emperor Karl and Empress Zita, left Austria and went into exile. That same year, the fairy tale opera Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow) had its premiere at the Vienna Opera. Viennese poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal and German composer Richard Strauss worked on Die Frau ohne Schatten through the bitter war years, imagining that it would triumphantly appear after the war to mark the victory of the German and Habsburg empires. Instead, the premiere came in the aftermath of catastrophic defeat. Strauss and von Hofmannsthal had turned emperors and empresses into fantastic fairy-tale characters; meanwhile, following the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy at the end of World War I, their real-life counterparts were removed from political life in Europe and began to be regarded as anachronistic, semi-mythological figures. This book explores how the changing circumstances of cultural production and reception before, during, and after World War I reshaped the political meanings of Die Frau ohne Schatten. Historian Larry Wolff's story of the opera's composition and performance history with a personal narrative of his Habsburg and Viennese family. Reflecting on the seismic cultural shifts that rocked post-imperial Europe, Wolff follows the real-life Emperor and Empress through the rise of Nazism, World War II, and the Cold War up until Zita's death in 1989, when she had herself become a fairy-tale figure"--
SN  - 978-1-5036-3458-9 kovakantinen
SN  - 978-1-5036-3564-7 pehmeäkantinen
KW  - Strauss, Richard, : 1864-1949
KW  - Strauss, Richard, : 1864-1949. : Frau ohne Schatten.
KW  - Zita, : Itävallan keisarinna
KW  - Zita, : Empress, consort of Charles I, Emperor of Austria, : 1892-1989.
KW  - Kaarle : I, : Itävallan keisari, : 1887-1922
KW  - Charles : I, : Emperor of Austria, : 1887-1922.
KW  - Habsburg, House of.
KW  - 1900-luku
KW  - Opera : Political aspects : Austria : History : 20th century.
KW  - Kings and rulers in opera.
KW  - World War, 1914-1918 : Austria : Music and the war.
KW  - oopperat
KW  - oopperataide
KW  - musiikki
KW  - kuninkaat
KW  - hallitsijat
KW  - ensimmäinen maailmansota
KW  - historia
KW  - Austria : History : 1918-1938.
KW  - Itävalta
ER  -