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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Main Author: Vlado Kotnik
Format: article
Language:EN
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Published: University of Belgrade 2016
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/29cc05f644d04c8287c2ec85cf32e633
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