The politics of culture: Joseph II's German opera. (Die Bergknappen - 1778 'singspeil' opera)

History Today | January 1, 1993| | Copyright

Elizabeth Manning looks at how an Enlightenment ruler enlisted opera in his struggle to homegenise and reinforce the Habsburg empire.

The eminent eighteenth-century Viennese court actor, J.H.F. Muller recorded in his memoirs for the year 1778 that |On Tuesday the 17th February... the first German Singspiel was performed in the court theatre nachst der Burg. It was entitled Die Bergknappen. The audience was large and the applause loud'. Several points emerge from this seemingly innocuous announcement, but first, a definition: the Singspiel was a genre to develop ...

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