Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots in Prague and Austrian censorship

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots in Prague and Austrian censorship
Original language description
The paper, drawing on the police authorities sources deposited in the National Archives and the City of Prague Archives, deals with the work’s conception in terms of censorship. In Austria, during the period of Metternich’s absolutist government, Les Huguenots was subject to strict censorship. The opera was performed at the Estates Theatre in Prague from 1840 in German in Georg Ott’s Vienna version, titled Die Ghibellinen in Pisa. The adaptation removed from the work everything the censors deemed dangerous for the establishment, Church and morals. In the revolutionary years 1848-1849, in the period of temporary abolition of censorship, Les Huguenots was performed in the uncensored form with the original historical subject. Under Bach’s neo-absolutism and renewed censorship in Austria, from 1850 the opera could be further staged as Die Hugenotten, yet in the “Conjuration et bénédiction des poignards” scene monks were again not allowed to appear, and, owing to the text, some passages had to be omitted or changed so as to moderate the central conflicting religious theme.
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Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Meyerbeer and Grand Opéra from the July monarchy to the present
ISBN
978-2-503-56842-3
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Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
107-121
Publisher name
Brepols
Place of publication
Turnhout
Event location
Pistoia
Event date
Sep 12, 2014
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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