Musical theatre as high culture?
Subtitle: the cultural discourse on opera and operetta in the 19th century = Glazbeno kazalište kao elitna kultura? : kulturološki diskurs o operi i opereti u 19. stoljeću
By: urednici, Vjera Katalinić, Stanlislav Tuksar, Harry White
Series: Serija Muzikološki zbornici -- br. 15; Serija Muzikološki zbornici -- br. 15.
Publisher: Croatian Musicological Society
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Zagreb
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9789536090396
Subjects: Opera; Musical theater; History and criticism
Other titles: Glazbeno kazalište kao elitna kultura?
Notes: "A collection of papers delivered at an international scholarly conference held in Zagreb between 24 and 25 November 2006, organized by the Croatian Musicological Society"--Fly leaf.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In English; summaries in English or Serbo-Croation.
Table of contents: title: Operas of the Irish mind: cultural theory, literary reception and the question of "Irishness" in nineteenth-century opera / Harry White; title: From Lucy Ashton's song to Lucia di Lammermoor's lament: Sir Walter Scott's perfect Gothic novel and the composers / Lynda Payne; title: Reception models of "popular" and "high" music theatre in the Parisian Theatre di Châtelet / Geza zur Nieden; title: The Czechs as cultural role models: cultural transfer from Bohemia to South-eastern Europe in the late Habsburg Empire / Philipp Ther; title: The Croatian late 19th century opera and operetta in Croatian musical-historical syntheses / Sanja Majer-Bobetko; title: Opera and operetta in the late nineteenth-century Zagreb National Theatre: composers, librettists, and themes: a comparison / Vjera Katalinić; title: From the theatre to the aristocratic drawing-room: locations of opera and operetta performances in Zagreb / Nada Bezić; title: From Nicolai to Offenbach: international operetta at the Budapest Opera House, 1880s-1900s / Markian Prokopovych; title: Was opera in Italy the nineteenth century's pop music?: diverse aspects of opera in Milan before Italian unification / Raffaella Bianchi; title: From central Europe to Broadway: adaptations of continental operettas for the American stage, 1915-1917 / William A. Everett; title: Opera, hypnosis and rollerskating: the rise of the Italian Politeami as multiple-use theatres / Jutta Toelle.