Garden and music theatre at the Dresden court in the 17th and 18th century: Medial and functional interrelations in the service of stately metaphor and princely representation

花园艺术和音乐戏剧作品是现代早期宫廷表现的组成部分，并在许多方面相互交织：花园被用作表演的场所，为此建造剧院或将花园融入作品。相反，基于真实的以及理想模型的花园自17世纪以来一直是音乐剧舞台装饰的永久武器库的一部分。该研究项目旨在研究法院花园功能化音乐剧的不同方式，以及它们如何在视觉媒体中表现。此外，第一次，他们的接待作为庄严的隐喻和王子代表的核心要素将从跨学科的角度进行研究，连接在音乐学，音乐戏剧研究和艺术史的专业知识。这是基于对Libretti，乐谱，描述，绘画，版画，素描和档案资源的比较分析，这些资源记录，想象和宣传了这个介于园林艺术，音乐戏剧和视觉艺术之间的中间星座的特征。研究项目的重点在于德累斯顿法院，可以被认为是一个典型的调查对象。各种形式的艺术园林设计和园林的音乐戏剧用途以及音乐戏剧作品本身都遵循最高的国际标准，并通过各种媒体进行传播。由于德累斯顿以这种方式与其他法院竞争，该项目具有泛欧的视角。由于对德累斯顿宫廷花园和歌剧剧目以及关于剧本、乐谱、视觉媒体和档案材料的良好来源情况进行了各种预备性研究，这种比较历时性案例研究的条件是有利的。本研究以权威的数据为基础，对歌剧《歌剧自由》中的场景进行描述，从而将花园和自然场景按其整体背景进行分类，并将其与真实的花园和视觉媒体记录的花园进行对比。研究项目分为两个主题：“作为音乐剧院舞台的花园”和“音乐剧院舞台上的花园”。两者都将涵盖音乐学和艺术史论文项目，以及密切合作的音乐戏剧研究专著。同时在德累斯顿、卡塞尔-威廉山和施韦青根举办的三个讲习班将提供扩大专题、讨论方法和提供项目比较视角的可能性。同时，将探讨在可能的后续项目中进一步转让的可能性。

Garden art and music theatre productions were integral elements of courtly representation in the early modern period and were intertwined in many ways: Gardens were used as settings for performances, for which theatres were built or which integrated the gardens into productions. Conversely, gardens based on real as well as ideal models have been part of the permanent arsenal of musical theatre stage decorations since the 17th century.The research project aims to examine the different ways in which court gardens were functionalised for music theatre and how they were represented in visual media. Furthermore, for the first time, their reception as core elements of stately metaphors and princely representation will be studied from a transdisciplinary perspective, linking expertise in musicology, music theatre studies and art history. This is based on a comparative analysis of libretti, scores, descriptions, paintings, prints, sketches and archival resources which document, imagine and propagate the characteristics of this intermedial constellation between garden art, music theatre and visual arts.The focus of the research project lies on the Dresden court, which can be considered an exemplary object of investigation. The various forms of artistic garden design and music-theatrical uses of the gardens as well as the music theatre productions themselves followed the highest international standards and were communicated through various media. Because Dresden competed with other courts in this way, the project takes on a pan-European perspective. Thanks to various preparatory studies on the Dresden court gardens and the opera repertoire as well as on the good source situation regarding librettos, scores, visual media and archival materials, the conditions for such a comparative diachronic case study are favourable. An authority data-based approach to scene descriptions in the opera libretti will make it possible to classify the garden and nature scenes in their overall context as well as their references to real gardens and those documented in visual media.The research project is divided into two thematic areas: "The Garden as a Site of Music Theatre Staging" and "The Garden on the Music Theatre Stage". Both will be covered by a musicological and art historical dissertation project each as well as a music theatre studies monograph in close cooperation. Three accompanying workshops, which will take place in Dresden, Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe and Schwetzingen, will present the possibility to enlarge upon the topics, discuss methods and to provide a comparative perspective on the project. At the same time, the potential with regard to further transfers in a possible follow-up project will be explored.