Date: 2008
Type: Thesis
Classical opera under authoritarian rule : a comparative study of cultural policy in the USSR, Italy and Germany
Florence : European University Institute, 2008, EUI, HEC, PhD Thesis
KOTKINA, Irina, Classical opera under authoritarian rule : a comparative study of cultural policy in the USSR, Italy and Germany, Florence : European University Institute, 2008, EUI, HEC, PhD Thesis - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/10401
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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
Additional information:
Defence date: 15 December 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); PDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digital archive of EUI PhD theses
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/10401
Series/Number: EUI; HEC; PhD Thesis
Publisher: European University Institute
LC Subject Heading: Operas -- Russia (Federation) -- History; Operas -- Italy -- History; Operas -- Germany -- History; Russia (Federation) -- Cultural policy; Italy -- Cultural policy; Germany -- Cultural policy
