CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Mestyan, Adam |
|---|---|
| Title | Art and Empire: Khedive Ismail and the foundation of the Cairo Opera House |
| Summary | This study describes the foundation of the Cairo Opera House (1869) and the creation of Aïda (1871) in the context of the opening ceremonies of the Suez Canal (1869). Doing so, the thesis introduces the concepts of political aesthetics and aesthetical politics as bridging principles between Opera Studies and Colonial Studies. The foundation event of the Cairo Opera is understood in the context of the “imperial set”. This concept is one of the theoretical results of the work: it defines the public visual expression of the imperial imagination of the Egyptian ruler, Khedive IsmÁÝÐl (1863-79). His cultural foundations are shown as serving the goal of political independence from the Ottomans and as means in the negotiation with the British and French colonial empires in a nineteenth-century Mediterranean culture. |
| Supervisor | Al-Bagdadi, Nadia |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/mestyan_adam.pdf |
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