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Jacques Offenbach
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ISBN: 3883770485 Year: 1980 Publisher: München Text + Kritik


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Jacques Offenbach and the making of modern culture
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ISBN: 9781139029643 9780521871808 0521871808 1108814026 1108327044 1108326846 110832584X 1108327443 1108327249 1108328245 1139029649 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Offenbach's operas were a significant force for cultural change, both in his own time and in the decades to follow. In this book, Laurence Senelick demonstrates the ways in which this musical phenomenon took hold globally, with Offenbach's work offering an alternative, irreverent, sexualized view of life which audiences found liberating, both personally and socially. In the theatre, the composer also inspired cutting-edge innovations in stagecraft and design, and in this book, he is recognized as a major cultural influence, with an extensive impact on the spheres of literature, art, film, and even politics. Senelick argues that Offenbach's importance spread far beyond France, and that his provocative and entertaining works, often seen as being more style than substance, influenced numerous key artists, writers, and thinkers, and made a major contribution to the development of modern society.


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Offenbach performance in Budapest, 1920-1956 : Orpheus on the Danube
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ISBN: 1108973418 1108977596 1108968597 1108968414 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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As a legacy of the Habsburg Empire, performances of Jacques Offenbach's musical stage works played an important role in Budapest musico-theatrical life in the twentieth century. However, between the collapse of the Empire and the 1956 anti-Soviet revolution, political ideologies strongly influenced the character of these productions, when they took place. Public performances of Offenbach's works were prohibited between 1938 and 1945 and they became the bases for propagandadistic adaptations in the 1950s. This element explores how the local operetta tradition and the vogue of operettas featuring composers as characters during the interwar period were also important factors in how Offenbach's stage works were performed in mid-twentieth century Budapest in versions that sometimes bore little resemblance to the originals.


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Offenbach und die Schauplätze seines Musiktheaters
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ISBN: 3890074111 9783890074115 Year: 1999 Publisher: Laaber Laaber

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