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The operetta empire : music theater in early twentieth-century Vienna /
"'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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2021]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.