Between province and metropolis. The opera repertoire of the Pressburger Stadttheater in the late nineteenth century

Laslavíková, Jana (2017) Between province and metropolis. The opera repertoire of the Pressburger Stadttheater in the late nineteenth century. Studia Musicologica, 58 (3-4). pp. 363-377. ISSN 1788-6244

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Abstract

The establishment and development of the Municipal Theater in Pressburg in the period 1886–1920 was closely linked with the cultural and social development of the city in the period following the Austrian-Hungarian Compromise in 1867. The theater was built by the rising stratum of Pressburg townsmen, based on a requirement of the Hungarian government. The theater was in the possession of the town that rented it to theater directors and their German and Hungarian companies. The theater had a primacy among provincial theaters in Hungary. This was mainly due to the vicinity of Vienna and the efforts to resemble the metropolis, notably by the local patriotism of Pressburg inhabitants who wanted their locality to be regarded as a leading Hungarian town. The opera performances and their reception in the newspapers demonstrate the history of culture of the town, mentalities and collective identifications of its citizens, and last but not least the history of culture of Central Europe.

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