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