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summaries
Keywords: Slovene National Theatre Opera in Ljubljana, program, newspa-
per announcements, music criticism
Cristina Scuderi
Teatri d’oltremare: Impresari und ihr Beziehungsnetz
an der ostadriatische Küste um die Jahrhundertwende
The work and networks of opera impresari in the main theaters that over-
look the coast of Istria and Dalmatia at the turn of the XX Century are at
the core of this paper.
From Rijeka to Dubrovnik, through Zadar, Šibenik and Split, the archival
material collected so far allows us to reconstruct the relationships between
impresari and directions of theatres, identifying contacts that publishers
and their representatives from Milan, Rome and Venice had with the area
of the coast. Nevertheless, points like the relationships impresario-compos-
er or some choices in the selection of the casts still remain unclear.
Although each of the coastal theatres had its own history, different subsi-
dies and different opera seasons, there was a common effort in facing the
difficulties caused by a period of crisis.
Impresari did not feel prevented in hiring Italian opera companies for dif-
ferent seasons even when the progressive de-italianization of the area, pur-
sued with no hesitation by emperor Franz Joseph, was in progress. Can we
speak of “cultural resistance” of Italian opera in the territories taken into
consideration? Moreover: what was the real identity of these theatres?
Representations, more and more often in Italian and Croatian - as in the
emblematic case of the Theatre Mazzoleni in Šibenik - were a reflection of a
process of mix between different cultures, at the junction of the Slavic, Ger-
manic and Latin world.
Keywords: Adriatic theaters, Opera seasons, 19. /20. Century
Tomaž Svete
The highways and byways of contemporary Slovene opera
“While opera was born from the humanistic ideal through an attempt at
reviving Greek tragedy, the whole of its later history has seen it moving
away from this ideal only to approach it again at specific moments of its
development.”
Karl Marx, whose awareness of the importance of the economic factor
within the process of artistic production is undeniable, touched on the re-
lationship between artistic production and the demands of consumption in
451
Keywords: Slovene National Theatre Opera in Ljubljana, program, newspa-
per announcements, music criticism
Cristina Scuderi
Teatri d’oltremare: Impresari und ihr Beziehungsnetz
an der ostadriatische Küste um die Jahrhundertwende
The work and networks of opera impresari in the main theaters that over-
look the coast of Istria and Dalmatia at the turn of the XX Century are at
the core of this paper.
From Rijeka to Dubrovnik, through Zadar, Šibenik and Split, the archival
material collected so far allows us to reconstruct the relationships between
impresari and directions of theatres, identifying contacts that publishers
and their representatives from Milan, Rome and Venice had with the area
of the coast. Nevertheless, points like the relationships impresario-compos-
er or some choices in the selection of the casts still remain unclear.
Although each of the coastal theatres had its own history, different subsi-
dies and different opera seasons, there was a common effort in facing the
difficulties caused by a period of crisis.
Impresari did not feel prevented in hiring Italian opera companies for dif-
ferent seasons even when the progressive de-italianization of the area, pur-
sued with no hesitation by emperor Franz Joseph, was in progress. Can we
speak of “cultural resistance” of Italian opera in the territories taken into
consideration? Moreover: what was the real identity of these theatres?
Representations, more and more often in Italian and Croatian - as in the
emblematic case of the Theatre Mazzoleni in Šibenik - were a reflection of a
process of mix between different cultures, at the junction of the Slavic, Ger-
manic and Latin world.
Keywords: Adriatic theaters, Opera seasons, 19. /20. Century
Tomaž Svete
The highways and byways of contemporary Slovene opera
“While opera was born from the humanistic ideal through an attempt at
reviving Greek tragedy, the whole of its later history has seen it moving
away from this ideal only to approach it again at specific moments of its
development.”
Karl Marx, whose awareness of the importance of the economic factor
within the process of artistic production is undeniable, touched on the re-
lationship between artistic production and the demands of consumption in
451
