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

在近代早期，园林艺术和音乐戏剧作品是宫廷表现的组成部分，它们在很多方面都交织在一起：花园被用作表演场所，为此建造剧院，或者将花园整合到制作中。相反，自17世纪以来，以真实和理想模型为基础的花园一直是音乐剧舞台装饰的永久军械库的一部分。该研究项目旨在研究庭院花园为音乐剧功能化的不同方式，以及它们如何在视觉媒体中表现出来。此外，将首次从跨学科的角度研究它们作为庄严隐喻和王子表现的核心元素的接受情况，将音乐学，音乐剧研究和艺术史的专业知识联系起来。这是基于对libretti、乐谱、描述、绘画、版画、草图和档案资源的比较分析，这些资源记录、想象和传播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，它可以被认为是一个典型的调查对象。各种形式的艺术花园设计和花园的音乐戏剧用途以及音乐剧制作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，因此该项目具有泛欧洲的视角。由于对德累斯顿宫廷花园和歌剧曲目的各种预备研究，以及对歌词、乐谱、视觉媒体和档案材料的良好来源情况的研究，这种比较历时性案例研究的条件是有利的。对歌剧《libretti》中的场景描述采用权威的基于数据的方法，将使花园和自然场景在其整体背景下以及对真实花园和视觉媒体中记录的花园的参考进行分类成为可能。研究项目分为两个主题：“作为音乐剧舞台场地的花园”和“音乐剧舞台上的花园”。两者都将由音乐学和艺术史论文项目以及音乐剧研究专著密切合作。将在德累斯顿、Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe和施韦青根举行的三个研讨会将提供扩大主题、讨论方法和对项目提供比较观点的可能性。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.