Förflyttningar och förskjutningar. Den dynamiska operetten

• This chapter examines the operetta as part of an intertextual framework and argues that transfers and shifts within this framework are important aspects for understanding the history and the function of the operetta. As primary empirical material, the article uses reviews from Swedish performances of Sidney Jones’ The Geisha, to discuss how an Asian themed operetta was developed and received in Sweden. The article further argues for the importance of studying how reviewers described the The Geisha. There seems to be a recurring theme, or trope, that treats the operetta as something in decline. A problematization of this emphasizes the operetta as part of an intertextual framework, where past, present, and future, becomes part of a dynamic exchange. The chapter also challenges the opposition between operetta and opera by showing how different artistes moved from one genre to another. This opens for a destabilization of the border between operetta as popular culture, and opera as high culture. All of this connects to the aim of the chapter, which is to argue for the importance of including popular culture when revising dominant beliefs about the past.

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Konst -- Teatervetenskap (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Arts -- Performing Art Studies (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

theatre

history of Swedish theatre

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