{"id":11851,"date":"2023-04-18T10:03:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T01:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/?p=11851"},"modified":"2023-04-19T09:37:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T00:37:09","slug":"report-of-monthly-regular-meeting-january-2023-the-208th-meeting-of-opera-research-group-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/news-en\/2023\/04\/18\/11851\/","title":{"rendered":"Report of Monthly Regular Meeting April 2023 (The 209th Meeting of Opera Research Group)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Report of Monthly Regular Meeting April 2023 (The 209th Meeting of Opera Research Group)<\/h3>\n<p>Waseda Institute for Research in Opera and Music Theatre (WIROM), Comprehensive Research Organization, Waseda University<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\">\n<li>Time and Date: April 8th (Sat.) 2023, 16:30 &#8211; 18:00 (JST)<\/li>\n<li>Format: Online meeting (Zoom)<\/li>\n<li>Presenter: OGAWA, Sawako<\/li>\n<li>Affiliation, Position: Hokkaido University, Associate Professor<\/li>\n<li>Title:\u201cExaggerating utopia, wandering nostalgia: Emmerich K\u00e1lm\u00e1n&#8217;s operettas and the First World War\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Language: Japanese<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\">\n<li>Abstract:<br \/>\nDuring the First World War, soldiers were sent to the front lines to face death as military bands played popular operettas by Franz Leh\u00e1r and Johann Strauss II. Consequently, reality became a &#8216;theatre of horror&#8217; (Joseph Roth, <em>Radetzky March<\/em>, 1932), full of destruction and barbarism, inevitably leading to a tragic end. Against this reality, operetta continued to provide the public with banal happy endings. However, the dystopia brought about by the war invaded the world of operetta as well.<br \/>\nFirst, in Emmerich K\u00e1lm\u00e1n&#8217;s <em>Ein Herbstman\u00f6ver<\/em> (1909) and <em>Die Cs\u00e1rd\u00e1sf\u00fcrstin<\/em> (1915), the meaning of the war was transformed from &#8216;peacetime&#8217; military exercises to &#8216;emergency&#8217; call-ups. In operettas performed during the war, the utopia of the Habsburg monarchy was exaggerated, contrary to reality, as Leo Fall&#8217;s <em>Die Rose von Stambul<\/em> (1916) shows. Following the war, works such as K\u00e1rm\u00e1n&#8217;s <em>Gr\u00e4fin Mariza<\/em> (1924) and <em>Die Zirkusprinzessin<\/em> (1926) premiered successively, overflowing with nostalgia for the collapsed Empire. This nostalgia was followed by <em>Die Herzogin von Chicago<\/em> (1928)\u2014which depicted the cultural conflict between the new world, America, and the old world, Europe\u2014and <em>Marinka<\/em> (1945), which was performed in the USA as a cultural residue of the Empire.<br \/>\nThis presentation focuses on K\u00e1rm\u00e1n&#8217;s operettas from the First World War period\u2014which marked the transition from the Habsburg Imperial period to the interwar period\u2014to reveal how the utopia of &#8216;national reconciliation,&#8217; which was the imperial ideal, the nostalgia associated with the loss of the Empire, and the dystopian reality of war were represented.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\">\n<li>Profile of Presenter:<br \/>\nDr. Sawako OGAWA is an associate professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences at Hokkaido University. She received her Ph.D. in 2012 from Waseda University, Graduate School of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. Her research interests include silent film history and the cultural history of Operetta. She has published a monograph about the comparative film history of European and Japanese early cinema (<em>Eiga no Taid\u014d<\/em>, Jinbun Shoin, 2016), an article \u201cThe First World War and Japanese Cinema: From Actuality to Propaganda\u201d in Jan Schmidt and Katja Schmidtpott (eds.), <em>The East Asian Dimension of the First World War. Global Entanglements and Japan, China and Korea, 1914-1919<\/em> (Campus, 2020), and co-edited <em>Genealogy of Shimpa film<\/em> (Shinwasha, 2023).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\">\n<li>Moderator: ISHII, Michiko<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\uff0aComment: There were 27 participants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report of Monthly Regular Meeting April 2023 (The 209th Meeting of Opera Research Group) Waseda Institute for  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[87,82,73],"class_list":["post-11851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-arts-en","tag-events-en","tag-research-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11954,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851\/revisions\/11954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}