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Center Stage: Operatic Culture And Nation Building In Nineteenth-Century Central Europe, Philipp Ther
Center Stage: Operatic Culture And Nation Building In Nineteenth-Century Central Europe, Philipp Ther
Central European Studies
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 …
Old Gods In New Clothes: The French Revolutionary Cults And The "Rebirth Of The Golden Age", Jennifer Boyet
Old Gods In New Clothes: The French Revolutionary Cults And The "Rebirth Of The Golden Age", Jennifer Boyet
Masters Theses
The French Revolution's state cults were possible because of French intellectuals' preference for pre-Christian Greco-Roman civilization, as well as France's history of heterodoxy. The philosophes endorsed ancient Greco-Roman civilization as embodying mankind's ideal and more "natural" state; French revolutionary leaders avidly read these ideas of the Enlightenment philosophers. This Enlightenment Classicalism influenced the designers of the French state religions to mirror Greco-Roman paganism in the new regime's festivals and iconography. The French people's fascination with the Occult further created the cultural and intellectual climate for the creation and acceptance of these new religions of the dechristianized republic. Under this worldview, …
The Fall Of The Bastille: The Voice And Power Of Paris, Harold Lowery
The Fall Of The Bastille: The Voice And Power Of Paris, Harold Lowery
A with Honors Projects
The events that culminated in the storming of the Bastille during the French Revolution were a combination of massive failures in France's agriculture, the use of military force in Paris, and the nobility's efforts to undermine the commoners. The revolution of 1789 demonstrated the power of a unified voice of the citizens in their desire to improve their living condition and status in society,
French Opera And The French Revolution, Etienne Nicolas Mehul, Savannah J. Dotson
French Opera And The French Revolution, Etienne Nicolas Mehul, Savannah J. Dotson
Departmental Honors Projects
Although Etienne Nicolas Méhul is relatively unknown today, he was greatly respected by his contemporaries, including Beethoven, Cherubini and Berlioz. He rose to popularity and notoriety during the most turbulent years of the French Revolution, when most intellectuals fled for their lives, and yet he managed to maintain his status as a favorite of the people. From an examination of some of his operas - Euphrosine (1790), Ariodant (1799), Adrien (1792, 1799), and Horatius Coclès (1794) - it is apparent that Mehul used thinly veiled allegories to express his views. His heroes in these operas were Romans, Scottish nobles, and …