Opera in the interwar Prague
Research within this thematic section centres on matters relating to Prague opera houses, their repertoire and programme, the artists and composers who worked at them, and the companies’ music directors, primarily Alexander Zemlinsky and George Szell, as well as the forms of expression of opera conventional during the respective historical period.
Basic facts regarding the historical development of the New German Theatre between 1888 and 1938 can be found directly on the Musica non grata website in the section Off Stage – New German Theatre
The Czech Television dedicated one episode of the popular series historie.cs to the history of the New German Theatre and the music scene in interwar Prague. Guests in the studio included the dramaturge of the National Theatre Opera and the State Opera Jitka Slavíková, historian and actor Jaroslav Someš, and musicologist Jiří Štilec. The episode is available on Czech Television Internet broadcasting (in Czech).
Jitka Ludvová Až k hořkému konci – Pražské německé divadlo 1845–1945
The complete history of the New German Theatre within the cultural and political context of the time is thoroughly documented in the book by musicologist Jitka Ludvová Až k hořkému konci – Pražské německé divadlo 1845–1945. This nearly 800-page publication is available in Czech.
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