Musical Theater and National Politics in Kyiv in the Nineteenth Century
- Prof. Dr. Ostap Sereda
This presentation explores the role of the musical theater as a national representative institution, a cultural project, a popular entertainment, and a center of urban sociability in the daily life of an Eastern European metropolis, the city of Kyiv (Kiev, Kijów), under the political conditions of the late Russian empire. Notwithstanding the direct intervention of imperial authorities into the cultural politics in nineteenth-century Kyiv, local actors exercised considerable influence on the musical and theatrical life in the city. This talk focuses on the foundation of permanent Russian opera in 1867, the introduction of Ukrainian professional musical theater in 1882, and also on Polish, Italian and French musical theatrical traditions in Kyiv that generated both cosmopolitan and nationalizing cultural spaces.
- Prof. Dr. Ostap Sereda
This presentation explores the role of the musical theater as a national representative institution, a cultural project, a popular entertainment, and a center of urban sociability in the daily life of an Eastern European metropolis, the city of Kyiv (Kiev, Kijów), under the political conditions of the late Russian empire. Notwithstanding the direct intervention of imperial authorities into the cultural politics in nineteenth-century Kyiv, local actors exercised considerable influence on the musical and theatrical life in the city. This talk focuses on the foundation of permanent Russian opera in 1867, the introduction of Ukrainian professional musical theater in 1882, and also on Polish, Italian and French musical theatrical traditions in Kyiv that generated both cosmopolitan and nationalizing cultural spaces.
- Part of series
- Von Gleichklang bis Disharmonie: Musik und Nation in Osteuropa (Osteuropa-Reihe HS 2022)
- Language
- German
- Duration
- 1:23:50
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