RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Laslavíková, Jana
T1 The First Years of the Municipal Theater in Pressburg and the Work of the German Theater Director Max Kmentt
JF Musicologica Olomucensia
YR 2017
VO 25
IS 1
SP 115
OP 131
DO 10.5507/mo.2017.007
UL https://musicologica.upol.cz/artkey/mus-201701-0007.php
AB The new Municipal Theater in Pressburg (today's Historical building of the Slovak National Theater in Bratislava) was opened in 1886, and until the year 1920, the city rented it to German and Hungarian directors. The first German tenant was Max Kmentt. He worked in the Municipal Theater in the years 1886/1887 and 1889/1890. His repertoire consisted mainly of entertainment pieces (German and French comedies, Austrian farce and operettas). An analysis of the repertoire brings up the question about the meaning of the Municipal Theater, which had long been influenced by the Viennese cultural environment. The members of Kmentt's artistic ensemble were mostly 'multitalented' artists, who were capable of acting in comedies, singing operettas and entertaining Pressburg's audience with their singing, acting and dancing in farce performances. Guests from the Viennese Court Theater and the Opera House established a high cultural environment; their presence being understood as proof of the education and culture of the inhabitants of Pressburg.