TY  - GEN
T1  - The shadow of the empress : fairy-tale opera and the end of the Habsburg monarchy
A1  - Wolff, Larry
LA  - English
PP  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1346989083
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"--
OP  - 435
CN  - ML3918.O64 W65 2023
SN  - 9781503635654
SN  - 1503635651
SN  - 9781503634589
SN  - 9781503635647
KW  - Strauss, Richard, : 1864-1949. : Frau ohne Schatten.
KW  - Zita, : Empress, consort of Charles I, Emperor of Austria, : 1892-1989.
KW  - Charles : I, : Emperor of Austria, : 1887-1922.
KW  - Habsburg, House of.
KW  - Maison de Habsbourg.
KW  - Charles : I, : Emperor of Austria, : 1887-1922
KW  - Habsburg, House of
KW  - Zita, : Empress, consort of Charles I, Emperor of Austria, : 1892-1989
KW  - Frau ohne Schatten (Strauss, Richard)
KW  - Opera : Political aspects : Austria : History : 20th century.
KW  - Kings and rulers in opera.
KW  - World War, 1914-1918 : Austria : Music.
KW  - Austria : History : 1918-1938.
KW  - Rois et souverains à l'opéra.
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 : Autriche : Musique.
KW  - Autriche : Histoire : 1918-1938.
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary.
KW  - Kings and rulers in opera
KW  - Music and war
KW  - Opera : Political aspects
KW  - Austria
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - History
ER  -