Opera as Social Showcase: Rituals of “Magic Mirrors” at the Margravial Opera House in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Bayreuth
This article proposes a ritualistic approach to opera in the historical case of the mid-eighteenth-century Margravial Opera House in Bavarian Bayreuth to argue that court opera can be understood as a variety of social showcase. In this view, court opera is a specific form of communication through w...
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University of Belgrade
2016-04-01
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| Series: | Etnoantropološki Problemi |
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| Online Access: | https://eap-iea.org/novi-ojs/index.php/eap/article/view/627 |