The Portrayal of Princess Libuše in Nineteenth-Century German and Czech Opera Librettos

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Portrayal of Princess Libuše in Nineteenth-Century German and Czech Opera Librettos

Original language description

Princess Libuše as a character in Central European operas from the 17th – 20th centuries represents a remarkable phenomenon which is yet to be comprehensively charted. The focus of the present study is on three German librettos dating from the 1810s and 20s (Heinrich Eduard Josef von Lannoy: Libussa, Böhmens erste Königin, 1819, Joseph Karl Bernard: Libussa, 1823, Johann Ludwig Choulant: Libussa, Herzogin von Böhmen, 1823), and three, or more precisely, four Czech librettos (Josef Krasoslav Chmelenský: Libušin sňatek, 1832, Josef Wenzig: Libuše, 1866/1881, Ema Destinnová: Kněžna Libuše, 1913, Nastolení Libušino, 1923). Using a comparative perspective, the text concentrates on motivic analysis of the librettos which it sets into the German and Czech literary contexts. At the same time, the study explores the differences of approach to the character of Princess Libuše between the German and Czech milieus. Whereas in the cases of the German-language librettos the main concern was with providing a thrilling and romantic plot, the Czech librettos tended towards the genre of coronation opera whose political message would address both the rulers, and even more relevantly the people and nation, as a vehicle of knowledge about themselves, their past history, present condition, and future. In this respect, Bernard’s libretto is already markedly distinct from Chmelenský’s text, after which the Czech tendency towards the ceremonial culminates in Wenzig’s libretto as the realization of a “glorious tableau”, to ebb in Ema Destinnová’s work at a time by when it was already regarded by the majority of critics (if not its audiences) as anachronistic. The Czech version of the study is available on the website of the journal Musical Science.n

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60206 - Specific literatures

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA20-14534S" target="_blank" >GA20-14534S: Libuše sings. Musico-Dramatic Adaptations of the Mythological Subject in Central European Culture between the 17th and 20th Centuries</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Hudební věda

ISSN

0018-7003

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Volume of the periodical

58

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

40

Pages from-to

471-510

UT code for WoS article

000762422500002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85131652543