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14 Premiere 1919

Die Frau ohne Schatten, the Märchenkaiser, and the Viennese Critics
© 2023 Stanford University Press, Redwood City

© 2023 Stanford University Press, Redwood City

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments xi
  4. Introduction 1
  5. PART I. Prewar fairy- tale empire
  6. 1 Hofmannsthal’s Viennese Celebrity and Princess Zita’s Habsburg Marriage 13
  7. 2 Emblems of Imperial Marriage 25
  8. 3 Descent from the Imperial Heights 40
  9. 4 Marriage and Childbirth in the Imperial Dynasty and the Fairy- Tale Opera 54
  10. 5 “A Traitor Wind” 71
  11. 6 Hexentanz 89
  12. PART II. Wartime habsburg catastrophe, operatic transfiguration
  13. 7 Menschenblut 109
  14. 8 “The Shadow Hovering in the Air” 128
  15. 9 “Spirit of the Carpathians” 144
  16. 10 The Empress at the Threshold 161
  17. 11 Empress Zita 180
  18. 12 Departure from Schönbrunn 207
  19. PART III. Postwar the afterlives of empresses
  20. 13 The Emperor and the Empress 227
  21. 14 Premiere 1919 247
  22. 15 Imperial Afterlife 266
  23. 16 “The Thread of Past Time” 290
  24. 17 Nazi Germany and Austrian Anschluss 305
  25. 18 The Empress in America 331
  26. 19 The Empress Returns 347
  27. Notes 367
  28. Index 417
The Shadow of the Empress
This chapter is in the book The Shadow of the Empress
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503635654-016

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments xi
  4. Introduction 1
  5. PART I. Prewar fairy- tale empire
  6. 1 Hofmannsthal’s Viennese Celebrity and Princess Zita’s Habsburg Marriage 13
  7. 2 Emblems of Imperial Marriage 25
  8. 3 Descent from the Imperial Heights 40
  9. 4 Marriage and Childbirth in the Imperial Dynasty and the Fairy- Tale Opera 54
  10. 5 “A Traitor Wind” 71
  11. 6 Hexentanz 89
  12. PART II. Wartime habsburg catastrophe, operatic transfiguration
  13. 7 Menschenblut 109
  14. 8 “The Shadow Hovering in the Air” 128
  15. 9 “Spirit of the Carpathians” 144
  16. 10 The Empress at the Threshold 161
  17. 11 Empress Zita 180
  18. 12 Departure from Schönbrunn 207
  19. PART III. Postwar the afterlives of empresses
  20. 13 The Emperor and the Empress 227
  21. 14 Premiere 1919 247
  22. 15 Imperial Afterlife 266
  23. 16 “The Thread of Past Time” 290
  24. 17 Nazi Germany and Austrian Anschluss 305
  25. 18 The Empress in America 331
  26. 19 The Empress Returns 347
  27. Notes 367
  28. Index 417
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