The shadow of the empress : fairy-tale opera and the end of the Habsburg monarchy /
"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 Stra...
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2023]
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Hofmannsthal's Viennese celebrity and Princess Zita's Habsburg marriage
- Emblems of imperial marriage : the golden apple, the silver rose, the human shadow, the dirigible balloon
- Descent from the imperial heights : Karl, Zita, and Hofmannsthal in Galicia
- Marriage and childbirth in the imperial dynasty and the fairy-tale opera : subterranean development and artistic collaboration
- "A traitor wind" : treachery in the opera and in the empire
- Hexentanz : the renunciation of motherhood and the assassination at Sarajevo
- Menschenblut : the sons of Adam and the outbreak of war
- "The shadow hovering in the air" : wartime propaganda, musical patriotism, and operatic collaboration
- "Spirit of the Carpathians" : military service, the preoccupations of wartime, and the trials of separation
- The empress at the threshold : the imminence of catastrophe and the last romantic opera
- Emperor Karl and Empress Zita : imperial motherhood and the pursuit of peace
- Departure from Schönbrunn : the end of the Habsburg monarchy and the rebirth of Austrian culture
- The emperor and the empress : in exile in Switzerland and on stage in Vienna
- Premiere 1919 : Die Frau ohne Schatten, the Märchenkaiser, and the Viennese critics
- Imperial afterlife : the politics of Hungarian Habsburg restoration and Austrian operatic repertory
- "The thread of past time" : imperial survivals and operatic variations in the 1920s
- Nazi Germany and Austrian Anschluss : political and operatic prospects in the 1930s
- The empress in America : escape from Nazi Europe
- The empress returns : Zita and Die Frau ohne Schatten after World War II.