RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Laslavíková, Jana
T1 On Hot Ground: The Première of Fibich's Opera Šárka by the Municipal Theatre in Pressburg in 1905
JF Musicologica Olomucensia
YR 2021
VO 33
IS 1
SP 74
OP 83
DO 10.5507/mo.2021.005
UL https://musicologica.upol.cz/artkey/mus-202101-0005.php
AB In 1905, the opera ensemble of the National Theatre from Brno, led by František Lacina, guest performed in the Municipal Theatre in Pressburg. The programme included Fibich's opera Šárka, which aroused much attention among the German-speaking audience in Pressburg. Šárka 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.