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První ředitel Národního divadla František Adolf Šubert (1849–1915), člověk mimořádně aktivní a zasloužilý hned v několika ohledech, dosud neměl žádnou vydanou monografii. Zpřístupněním zrevidovaného rukopisu z pera novináře, uměleckého kritika a literárního historika Antonína Veselého (1888–1945) o F. A. Šubrtovi jako dramatikovi splácíme část dluhu českého kulturního dějepisectví vůči této velké, zakladatelské a málem již polozapomenuté osobnosti. Autor a v jeho stopě editor publikace sledují Šubrta v celém vývoji jeho dramatické tvorby, v minulosti neprávem podceňované, od studentských počátků přes složité překonávání romantické estetiky a soudobých vlivů francouzských až po několik závažných pokusů o soudobé realistické drama, které plnily aktuální průkopnickou úlohu v české dramatické produkci. Jejich závažnost autor dokazuje přesvědčivě, na základě důkladného pramenného studia a v širším kulturním a politickém kontextu.
Grand palaces of culture, opera theaters marked the center of European cities like the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. As opera cast its spell, almost every European city and society aspired to have its own opera house, and dozens of new theaters were constructed in the course of the "long" nineteenth century. At the time of the French Revolution in 1789, only a few, mostly royal, opera theaters, existed in Europe. However, by the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries nearly every large town possessed a theater in which operas were performed, especially in Central Europe, the region upon which this book concentrates. This volume, a revised and extended version of two well-reviewed bo...
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The motto Národ sobě – “From the Nation to Itself” – inscribed over the proscenium arch of Prague’s National Theatre symbolizes the importance theatre holds for the Czechs. During the National Awakening of the 19th century, theatre took the place of politics, becoming an instrument of national identity in the hands of the revivalists. In what was then part of a German-speaking empire, the Czechs devised a complex and evocative theatre language made up of allegory, allusion, juxtaposition, games, wordplay, legend, history, illusion and music. A sophisticated avant-garde theatre flowered in Czechoslovakia between the wars, and became a symbol of independence during the Nazi occupat...
As both an in-depth study of Mozart criticism and performance practice in Prague, and a history of how eighteenth-century opera was appropriated by later political movements and social groups, this book explores the reception of Mozart's operas in Prague between 1791 and the present and reveals the profound influence of politics on the construction of the Western musical canon. Tracing the links between performances of Mozart's operas and strategies that Bohemian musicians, critics, directors, musicologists, and politicians used to construct modern Czech and German identities, Nedbal explores the history of the canonization process from the perspective of a city that has often been regarded as peripheral to mainstream Western music history. Individual chapters focus on Czech and German adaptations of Mozart's operas for Prague's theaters, operatic criticism published in Prague's Czech and German journals, the work of Bohemian historians interpreting Mozart, and endeavours of cultural activists to construct monuments in recognition of the composer.