Ottoman Empire and European Theatre Vol. II

Contents

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

Prologue: Politics
Mehmet Alaaddin Yalçinkaya (Trabzon): The Recruitment of European Experts for Service in the Ottoman Empire (1732–1808)
Bertrand Michael Buchmann (Vienna): Austria and the Ottoman Empire between 1765 and 1815

Act I: Fashion and Diplomacy
Annemarie Bönsch (Vienna): From Aristocratic to Bourgeois Fashion in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
Suna Suner (Vienna): Of Messengers, Messages and Memoirs: Opera and the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Envoys and Their Sefâretnâmes
Çetin Sarikartal (Istanbul): Two Turkish-Language Plays Written by Europeans at the Academy of Oriental Languages in Vienna During the Age of Haydn

Intermezzo I
Walter Puchner (Athens): Karagöz and the History of Ottoman Shadow Theatre in the Balkans from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries: Diffusion, Functions and Assimilations

Act II: Books in and about the Ottoman Empire
Orlin Sabev (Orhan Salih, Sofia): European Printers in Istanbul During Joseph Haydns's Era: Ibrahim Müteferrika and Others
Geoffrey Roper (London): Music, Drama and Orientalism in Print: Joseph von Kurzböck (1736–1792), His Predecessors and Contemporaries
Reinhard Buchberger (Vienna): The Austro-Turkish War of 1788–1791 as Reflected in the Library of the Viennese Bibliophile Max von Portheim

Intermezzo II
Käthe Springer-Dissmann (Vienna): Did Mozart Drive a ‘Haydn’? Cartwrights, Carriages and the Postal System in the Austrian-Hungarian Border Area up to the Eighteenth Century

Act III: The Esterház Stage
Larry Wolff (New York): Turkish Travesty in European Opera: Haydn’s Lo speziale (1768)
Caryl Clark (Toronto): Encountering ‘Others’ in Haydn’s Lo speziale (1768)
Necla Çikigil (Ankara): Haydn’s Humour Reflected in Lo speziale (1768) and L’incontro improvviso (1775)
Matthew Head (London): Interpreting ‘Abduction’ Opera: Haydn’s L’incontro improvviso, Sovereignty and the Esterház Festival of 1775

Intermezzo III
Clemens Zoidl (Vienna): A Royals’ Journey in 1775: The Vienna Official Press Review

Act IV: The French Influence
Daniel Winkler (Vienna): Crusaders, Love and Tolerance: Tragic and Operatic Taste in and Around Voltaire’s Zaïre (1732)
Hans-Peter Kellner (Copenhagen): The Sultan of Denmark: Voltaire’s Zaïre and King Christian VII (r.1766–1808) – Madness and Enlightenment
Bent Holm (Copenhagen): Occidental Portraits in Oriental Mirrors: The Ruler Image in the Eighteenth-Century Türkenoper and Gluck’s iLa Rencontre Imprévue
Isabelle Moindrot (Tours): Tamerlan: A ‘Turkish’ Opera by Peter von Winter for the Paris Opera (1802)

Intermezzo IV
Netice Yildiz (North Cyprus): Turkish Britons and Ottoman Turks in England During the Eighteenth Century

Act V: The Ottoman Stage
Günsel Renda (Istanbul): Westernisms and Ottoman Visual Culture: Wall Paintings
Caroline Herfert (Vienna): Selim III and Mahmud II in the Limelight: Imparting Knowledge on the Ottoman Empire from the Perspective of the ‘Viennese Turk’ Murad Efendi (1836–1881)
Emre Araci (London): “Each Villa on the Bosphorus Looks a Screen | New Painted, Or a Pretty Opera Scene”: Mahmud II (r.1808–1839) Setting the Ottoman Stage for Italian Opera and Viennese Music
Adam Mestyan (Cambridge/MA): Sound, Military Music, and Opera in Egypt during the Rule of Mehmet Ali Pasha (r.1805–1848)

Epilogue
“The Ladies of Vienna En Masse Waited Upon the Turkish Ambassador to Compliment Him ...”: Excerpts From Frances Trollope’s Vienna and the Austrians (1838)

Appendix
Index
Curricula Vitae