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Bewitching Russian Opera - The Tsarina from State to Stage (Hardcover)
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Bewitching Russian Opera - The Tsarina from State to Stage (Hardcover)
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In Bewitching Russian Opera: The Tsarina from State to Stage, Inna
Naroditskaya investigates the musical lives of four female monarchs
who ruled Russia for most of the eighteenth century - Catherine I,
Anna, Elizabeth, and Catherine the Great. Engaging with
ethnomusicological, historical, and philological approaches, her
study traces the tsarinas' deeply invested interest in musical
drama, as each built theaters, established drama schools,
commissioned operas and ballets, and themselves wrote and produced
musical plays. Naroditskaya examines the creative output of the
tsarinas across the contexts in which they worked and lived,
revealing significant connections between their personal creative
aspirations and contemporary musical-theatrical practices, and the
political and state affairs conducted during their reigns.
Bewitching Russian Opera ultimately demonstrates that the theater
served as an experimental space for these imperial women, in which
they rehearsed, probed, and formulated gender and class roles, and
enacted on the musical stage political ambitions and international
conquests which they would later carry out on the world stage
itself.
Beginning with the eighteenth-century imperial court, Naroditskaya
illustrates the increased theatricality of the court and the
popularity of musical theater among nobles, which occurred
alongside an appropriation of folk and court ceremonies into the
theater. Through contemporary performance theory, she demonstrates
how the opportunity for role-playing and costume-changing in
performative spaces allowed individuals to cross otherwise rigid
boundaries of class and gender. A close look at a series of operas
and musical theater productions - from Catherine the Great's fairy
tale operas to Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame - illuminates the
transition of these royal women from powerful political and
cultural figures during their own reigns, to a marginalized and
unreal Other under the patriarchal dominance of the subsequent
period. These tsarinas successfully fostered the concept of a
modern nation and collective national identity, only to then have
their power and influence undone in Russian cultural consciousness
through the fairy-tales operas of the 19th century that positioned
tsarinas as "magical" and dangerous figures rightfully displaced
and conquered--by triumphant heroes on the stage, and by the new
patriarchal rulers in the state.
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