Sheil, Aine Catherine orcid.org/0000-0001-6890-3204 (2018) Displacement, repetition and repression:Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg on stage in the Weimar Republic. Cambridge Opera Journal. pp. 117-151. ISSN 0954-5867
Abstract
Relatively little scholarly attention has been paid to the performance and reception history of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg during the Weimar Republic (1919-33), but as this article will demonstrate, the opera played an indispensable role in the repertories of Weimar opera houses. Despite an evident desire on the part of some Weimar directors and designers of Die Meistersinger to draw on staging innovations of the time, productions of the work from this period are characterised by scenic conservatism and repetition of familiar naturalistic imagery. This was not coincidental, I will argue, since Die Meistersinger served as a comforting rite for many opera-going members of the Weimar middle classes, at least some of whom felt economically or socially beleaguered in the aftermath of World War I. But no matter how secure the conservative theatrical conventions surrounding the Weimar Meistersinger appeared, the repressed turmoil of the Weimar Republic seeped into ideas about the work, haunting the performance and reception of constructed German stability.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | Cambridge University Press, 2018. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > Music (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 09 Oct 2017 11:00 |
Last Modified: | 20 Feb 2025 00:08 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S095458671700012X |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S095458671700012X |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:122212 |
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