Classical opera under authoritarian rule: A comparative study of cultural policy in the USSR, Italy and Germany
Title: Classical opera under authoritarian rule: A comparative study of cultural policy in the USSR, Italy and Germany
Author: KOTKINA, Irina
Date: 2008
Citation: Florence, European University Institute, 2008
Series/Number: EUI PhD theses; Department of History and Civilization
Abstract:
The aim of this thesis is to analyze and compare the operatic culture of Stalinist USSR, Nazi Germany, and Fascist Italy. This task implies analyzing and comparing the operatic cultures, and scrutinizing governmental policies as they affected opera in the USSR, Germany, and Italy in the period of authoritarian rule. The most important focus is on the impact which these three regimes had on opera. And we start our analysis from the paradoxical fact that opera managed to retain its high quality during the time of strictest repression
LC Subject Heading: Operas -- Russia (Federation) -- History; Operas -- Italy -- History; Operas -- Germany -- History; Russia (Federation) -- Cultural policy; Italy -- Cultural policy; Germany -- Cultural policy
Description:
Defense date: 15/12/2008; Examining Board:
Prof. Edward Arfon Rees (EUI, and European Research Institute, University of Birmingham) - supervisor
Prof. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (EUI)
Prof. Svetlana Savenko (Moscow State P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and Russian State Institute for Art Studies)
Prof. Hans Erich Bödeker (Max Planck Institute for History, Göttingen, and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)
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