PT Journal
AU Laslavikova, J
TI On Hot Ground: The Premiere of Fibich's Opera Sarka by the Municipal Theatre in Pressburg in 1905
SO Musicologica Olomucensia
PY 2021
BP 74
EP 83
VL 33
IS 1
DI 10.5507/mo.2021.005
DE the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries; Municipal Theatre in Pressburg; German-speaking audience; the opera ensemble of the National Theatre from Brno; Fibich's opera Sarka
AB In 1905, the opera ensemble of the National Theatre from Brno, led by Frantisek Lacina, guest performed in the Municipal Theatre in Pressburg. The programme included Fibich's opera Sarka, which aroused much attention among the German-speaking audience in Pressburg. Sarka was labelled as the most exciting new opera, and its excellent staging was to serve as an example for the artistic activities of the Hungarian theatre directors and their ensembles trying to gain a permanent foothold in Pressburg at that time. This paper discusses the reception of Fibich's opera in the context of the social and political situation in Pressburg at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and analyses the role of municipal theatres in the process of shaping the new countries in Central Europe.
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