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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Apollo and the German muses: Opera and the articulation of class, politics, and society in Prussia, 1740--1806 Abstract: This dissertation examines opera in Brandenburg-Prussia between 1740 and 1806 as a measure of social, political, and cultural change. Beginning in 1740, the monarchy subsidized an Italian opera company that performed primarily in the newly-constructed Royal Opera House on Berlin's main boulevard, Unter den Linden. Friedrich II chose the mid eighteenth-century Italian dramma per musica to represent monarchic power and prestige, and its performance reflected a rigorously articulated social and political ideal, both on the stage in the subjects selected for operatic treatment and in the theater through a carefully theorized arrangement of the audience to mirror social hierarchy determined according to rank. Performances after 1786 offered a different ideal, influenced by the emergence of a bureaucratic middle class in Berlin, by the appearance of a literary public sphere in conjunction with new printed discussions of music after 1750, and by a reorientation of opera that took market forces into account beginning in the 1760s. |
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