Ottoman Empire and European Theatre Vol. IV

Michael Hüttler, Dr. phil., studied theatre, film and media studies as well as journalism and communication studies at Vienna University; he has been conducting research for the DON JUAN ARCHIV WIEN since 2001. From 2007 to 2010 he has been Director of DON JUAN ARCHIV WIEN and since 2011 he is Director of HOLLITZER Verlag. Hans Ernst Weidinger, Gewerke, Dr. phil., studied law, classical languages, archeology, theatre studies and art history at Vienna University, and dance, voice and piano in Vienna and Prague. Since the 1970s he has dedicated himself to the history of Don Juan materials from its origins until the end of the eighteenth century. He founded the DON JUAN ARCHIV WIEN in the anniversary year 1987. Both editors are conveners of the international symposia series "Ottoman Empire and European Theatre", which has been held regularly since 2008 in Istanbul and Vienna and whose proceedings are published in the book series "Ottomania".

Contents

Ouverture
Michael Hüttler (Vienna), Hans Ernst Weidinger (Vienna/Florence): Editorial

Prologue:
Gülgûn Üçel-Aybet (Istanbul) : Banqueting at the Seraglio, as Described by European Diplomats of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Act I: The Painted Seraglio
Nina Trauth (Brussels): Fantasies of the Harem in European Portraiture of the Baroque Period
Darja Koter (Ljubljana): Traces of the Seraglio in the Artworks in Slovenia: Depictions of Dance, Music and Theatre from Seventeenth-Century Turqueries to Johann Josef Karl Henrici’s Paintings in the Late Eighteenth Century
Polona Vidmar (Maribor): Count Stefano Carli’s La Erizia (1765): In the Harem of Sultan Mehmed II

Act II: The Seraglio in Italian–Ottoman Context
Luca Scarlini (Milan): The Turks in Italy, or Another Mask of Don Juan: Mirrorings
Alexandre Lhâa (Aix-En-Provence): The Metamorphosis of Tarare: Political Uses and Receptions of a ‘Seraglio Intrigue’ from the Ancien Régime to the Restoration (1787–1826)

Act III: The Seraglio in Austrian Eighteenth-Century Singspiele
Michael Hüttler (Vienna): Joseph Friebert’s Singspiel Das Serail (c.1778) in the Don Juan Archiv Wien: Provenance and State of Research
Tatjana Markovic (Vienna): Das Serail (c.1778) by Joseph Friebert as an Embodiment of Enlightened Absolutism
Strother Purdy (Milwaukee/WI): Irene, Doomed Queen of the Seraglio: A Wise Austrian Looks at Moslem-Christian Violence (Vienna 1781)

Act IV: Harem Fantasies on the Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Austrian Stage
John Sienicki (Grand Rapids/MI): But Not All Are Gentlemen: The Dark Side of the Harem Fantasy in the Works of Perinet, Spiess and Hensler
Lisa Feurzeig (Grand Rapids/MI): The Harem Transplanted? A Hopeful Picture of
Bigamy in Franz Schubert’s Unfinished Opera Der Graf von Gleichen
Caroline Herfert (Vienna): Between ‘Romantic Reverie’ and Critical Account: The Different Harems of Murad Efendi (1836–1881)

Act V: From the Ottoman Point of View
Orlin Sabev (Orhan Salih, Sofia): European ‘Seraglios’ and ‘Strange Arts’ as Seen by Ottoman Encounters from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century
Emre Araci (London): “But if the Sultan Has a Taste for Song, We Will Revive our Fortunes Before Long”: Seeking Operatic Fortunes in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Harem
Evren Kutlay (Istanbul: Musical Instruments in Ottoman Seraglios and Harems of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Nazende Yilmaz: European Music Embraced in the Ottoman Seraglio

Appendix
Index
Curricula Vitae