The St Petersburg Imperial Theaters
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The St Petersburg Imperial Theaters
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Author : Murray Frame
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2009-03-30
The St Petersburg Imperial Theaters written by Murray Frame and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-30 with Performing Arts categories.
The opulent St. Petersburg Imperial Theaters were subsidized and administered by the Russian court from the eighteenth century until the collapse of the tsarist order in 1917. This close association raises many questions about the uses of these theaters and where their loyalties lay in early twentieth century Russia. This history begins in 1900 with the theater flourishing but undergoing change, then chronicles the impact of war and revolution, as well as audience and administration, leading up to the effective re-establishment of state control over the theaters by the Bolsheviks in 1920. While the theaters were often allied with the forces of change, their grandeur harked back to the age of the tsars, creating an irony that is explored here in depth. Photographs and diagrams of the theaters are included, along with photographs of the central historical figures, and contemporary cartoons referring to the theaters.
The St Petersburg Imperial Theaters
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Author : Murray Frame
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-07-11
The St Petersburg Imperial Theaters written by Murray Frame and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-11 with Performing Arts categories.
The opulent St. Petersburg Imperial Theaters were subsidized and administered by the Russian court from the eighteenth century until the collapse of the tsarist order in 1917. This close association raises many questions about the uses of these theaters and where their loyalties lay in early twentieth century Russia. This history begins in 1900 with the theater flourishing but undergoing change, then chronicles the impact of war and revolution, as well as audience and administration, leading up to the effective re-establishment of state control over the theaters by the Bolsheviks in 1920. While the theaters were often allied with the forces of change, their grandeur harked back to the age of the tsars, creating an irony that is explored here in depth. Photographs and diagrams of the theaters are included, along with photographs of the central historical figures, and contemporary cartoons referring to the theaters.
The St Petersburg Imperial Theatres 1900 1920
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Author : Murray Frame
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
The St Petersburg Imperial Theatres 1900 1920 written by Murray Frame and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with categories.
Dancing In Petersburg
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Author : Mathilde Kschessinska
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-06-17
Dancing In Petersburg written by Mathilde Kschessinska and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-17 with categories.
Mathilde Kschessinska, Prima ballerina of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatre, tells her life story in these moving and dramatic memoirs. Born in Imperial Russia in 1872, Kschessinska came from a family of dancers and was trained in ballet. Noted as a great talent from youth, Kschessinska's destiny was shaped by her debut performance: she won the praise of visiting Russian royalty and met the young man who was to become the future Tsar Nicholas II. The two became romantically involved for three years, until the young Grand Duke was betrothed to the future Empress Alexandra. Perhaps the most dramatic and harrowing passages of this memoir date to the Russian Revolution: the sudden plunge of the nation into chaos and anarchy, and the danger the author was in as a known associate of Russia's royal family, is told. By sheer fortune, Kschessinska and her husband were able to escape to France, but not after a series of close calls amid the melee of Russia's devastating civil war.
Dancing In Petersburg
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Author : Mathilde Kschessinska
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-06-17
Dancing In Petersburg written by Mathilde Kschessinska and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Mathilde Kschessinska, Prima ballerina of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatre, tells her life story in these moving and dramatic memoirs. Born in Imperial Russia in 1872, Kschessinska came from a family of dancers and was trained in ballet. Noted as a great talent from youth, Kschessinska's destiny was shaped by her debut performance: she won the praise of visiting Russian royalty and met the young man who was to become the future Tsar Nicholas II. The two became romantically involved for three years, until the young Grand Duke was betrothed to the future Empress Alexandra. Perhaps the most dramatic and harrowing passages of this memoir date to the Russian Revolution: the sudden plunge of the nation into chaos and anarchy, and the danger the author was in as a known associate of Russia's royal family, is told. By sheer fortune, Kschessinska and her husband were able to escape to France, but not after a series of close calls amid the melee of Russia's devastating civil war.
Popular Theater And Society In Tsarist Russia
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Author : E. Anthony Swift
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2002-12-30
Popular Theater And Society In Tsarist Russia written by E. Anthony Swift and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-12-30 with Performing Arts categories.
This is the most comprehensive study available of the popular theater that developed during the last decades of tsarist Russia. Swift examines the origins and significance of the new "people's theaters" that were created for the lower classes in St. Petersburg and Moscow between 1861 and 1917. His extensively researched study, full of anecdotes from the theater world of the day, shows how these people's theaters became a major arena in which the cultural contests of late imperial Russia were played out and how they contributed to the emergence of an urban consumer culture during this period of rapid social and political change. Swift illuminates many aspects of the story of these popular theaters—the cultural politics and aesthetic ambitions of theater directors and actors, state censorship politics and their role in shaping the theatrical repertoire, and the theater as a vehicle for social and political reform. He looks at roots of the theaters, discusses specific theaters and performances, and explores in particular how popular audiences responded to the plays.
The Russian Theatre
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Author : Joseph Gregor
language : en
Publisher: New York : B. Blom
Release Date : 1968
The Russian Theatre written by Joseph Gregor and has been published by New York : B. Blom this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Ballet categories.
Theatre And Identity In Imperial Russia
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Author : Catherine A. Schuler
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2009-05-01
Theatre And Identity In Imperial Russia written by Catherine A. Schuler and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-01 with History categories.
What role did the theatre—both institutionally and literally—play in Russia’s modernization? How did the comparatively harmonious relationship that developed among the state, the nobility, and the theatre in the eighteenth century transform into ideological warfare between the state and the intelligentsia in the nineteenth? How were the identities of the Russian people and the Russian soul configured and altered by actors in St. Petersburg and Moscow? Using the dramatic events of nineteenth-century Russian history as a backdrop, Catherine Schuler answers these questions by revealing the intricate links among national modernization, identity, and theatre. Schuler draws upon contemporary journals written and published by the educated nobility and the intelligentsia—who represented the intellectual, aesthetic, and cultural groups of the day—as well as upon the laws of the Russian empire and upon theatrical memoirs. With fascinating detail, she spotlights the ideologically charged binaries ascribed to prominent actors—authentic/performed, primitive/civilized, Russian/Western—that mirrored the volatility of national identity from the Napoleonic Wars through the reign of Alexander II. If the path traveled by Russian artists and audiences from the turn of the nineteenth century to the era of the Great Reforms reveals anything about Russian culture and society, it may be that there is nothing more difficult than being Russian in Russia. By exploring the ways in which theatrical administrators, playwrights, and actors responded to three tsars, two wars, and a major revolt, this carefully crafted book demonstrates the battle for the hearts and minds of the Russian people.
Bolshoi Confidential Secrets Of The Russian Ballet From The Rule Of The Tsars To Today
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Author : Simon Morrison
language : en
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2016-10-11
Bolshoi Confidential Secrets Of The Russian Ballet From The Rule Of The Tsars To Today written by Simon Morrison and has been published by Liveright Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-11 with Performing Arts categories.
In this “incredibly rich” (New York Times) definitive history of the Bolshoi Ballet, visionary performances onstage compete with political machinations backstage. A critical triumph, Simon Morrison’s “sweeping and authoritative” (Guardian) work, Bolshoi Confidential, details the Bolshoi Ballet’s magnificent history from its earliest tumults to recent scandals. On January 17, 2013, a hooded assailant hurled acid into the face of the artistic director, making international headlines. A lead soloist, enraged by institutional power struggles, later confessed to masterminding the crime. Morrison gives the shocking violence context, describing the ballet as a crucible of art and politics beginning with the disreputable inception of the theater in 1776, through the era of imperial rule, the chaos of revolution, the oppressive Soviet years, and the Bolshoi’s recent $680 million renovation. With vibrant detail including “sex scandals, double-suicide pacts, bribery, arson, executions, prostitution rings, embezzlement, starving orphans, [and] dead cats in lieu of flowers” (New Republic), Morrison makes clear that the history of the Bolshoi Ballet mirrors that of Russia itself.
Lost Empires
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Author : Nigel Fountain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Lost Empires written by Nigel Fountain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Performing Arts categories.
The story of the music halls that once lit up townscapes, and those that still won't die - the tales of the stars, stooges, crooks, novelty acts, demolition gangs, runaways and diehards who never gave up. Every city that was part of an empire, there were Empire and imperial music halls, vaudevilles, opera houses, theatres or fledgling cinemas filled with prestige, glamour and dreams. Two world wars later, the empires, crumbled, and the Empires and imperials in these cities were fighting dry rot and television. Many lost the fight. But some did not. "Lost Empires" explores the fates of these fallen Empires and Imperials around the world, as well as the stories of the survivors, such as the splendid St Petersburg Imperial Theatre of the 1870s and the restored Hackney Empire in east London. From Leiden's Theater-imperium to Toowomba Queensland's Empire, we see what links these places of entertainment, and what divides them.