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The Opera as a Medium of the National Idea at the South-East of the Habsburg Monarchy: The Case of the National Theatre in Zagreb, the Capital of Croatia

The opera, regarded as a Gesammtkunstwerk, expresses the qualities and the intentions of the composer, the librettist and the master of the stage. In addition, from that piece of art one can observe the Zeitgeist – especially when combined with its reception in the audience and by the critics. Ivan Zajc (1832-1914), a Croatian composer who was educated in Milan (1850-55) and later (1863-1870) made a career as an operetta composer in Vienna, was the organizer, the first director and conductor of the newly established opera department (1870) at the Zagreb Croatian national theatre (1861). He was the main composer of Croatian national operas, too. After the national- historical trilogy (Mislav, Ban Leget and Nikola Šubić Zrinjski, composed from 1870 to 1876), he turned to the more pan-Slavic oriented works, some of them even comic operas. The followings aspects will be discussed here: the construction of the national mythology in the libretti, the presence and the role of the folk- music tradition, and the reception in the audience in order to recognize their place in the second half of the 19th-century history of national ideas in Croatia.

national opera, 19th century music, Zagreb, National theatre, La Favilla, Vatroslav Lisinski, Ivan Zajc

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