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Oxana Gourinovitch – Raising the Curtain: Operatic Modernism in the Soviet Republics

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No other building typology holds such a long record of complicity with the political powers of a nation state as the opera theatre does. As both a shelter for and a display of the fantastic, the extravagant, and the hyperbolic, the opera theatre aptly stages a desired vision of a society unbound by limits of the rational. For a nation as an imagined community, the opera theatre is the designated space of self-imagination. Raising the Curtain centres on two modernist opera theatres built on the western periphery of the Soviet Union, now located in the capitals of Lithuania and Belarus: the Oper

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