The shadow of the empress : fairy-tale opera and the end of the Habsburg monarchy / by Wolff, Larry

Table of Contents: “…Hofmannsthal's Viennese celebrity and Princess Zita's Habsburg marriage -- Emblems of imperial marriage : the golden apple, the silver rose, the human shadow, the dirigible balloon -- Descent from the imperial heights : Karl, Zita, and Hofmannsthal in Galicia -- Marriage and childbirth in the imperial dynasty and the fairy-tale opera : subterranean development and artistic collaboration -- "A traitor wind" : treachery in the opera and in the empire -- Hexentanz : the renunciation of motherhood and the assassination at Sarajevo -- Menschenblut : the sons of Adam and the outbreak of war -- "The shadow hovering in the air" : wartime propaganda, musical patriotism, and operatic collaboration -- "Spirit of the Carpathians" : military service, the preoccupations of wartime, and the trials of separation -- The empress at the threshold : the imminence of catastrophe and the last romantic opera -- Emperor Karl and Empress Zita : imperial motherhood and the pursuit of peace -- Departure from Schönbrunn : the end of the Habsburg monarchy and the rebirth of Austrian culture -- The emperor and the empress : in exile in Switzerland and on stage in Vienna -- Premiere 1919 : Die Frau ohne Schatten, the Märchenkaiser, and the Viennese critics -- Imperial afterlife : the politics of Hungarian Habsburg restoration and Austrian operatic repertory -- "The thread of past time" : imperial survivals and operatic variations in the 1920s -- Nazi Germany and Austrian Anschluss : political and operatic prospects in the 1930s -- The empress in America : escape from Nazi Europe -- The empress returns : Zita and Die Frau ohne Schatten after World War II.…”
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