Monarchia i monarchowie we francuskiej operze rewolucyjnej
Monarchy and Monarchs in French Revolutionary Opera

Summary/Abstract: The article scrutinizes the sociopolitical conditions underlying new strategies ofcontrolling the production and staging of operatic works in France during the FrenchRevolution. The author studies the development of censorship during the consecutivestages of the Revolution, showing how its agencies evaluated the monarchy andcultural heritage of Ancien Régime. Moreover, the author considers the institutionaland legislative framework in France between 1789 and 1794. Thus, the article focusesespecially on the contents and consequences of various acts and laws pertaining tospectacles. The author examines three operas – Gluck’s Iphigenia in Aulis, Méhul’sHadrian, and Gossecs’s The Triumph of the Republic – to highlight a variety of approachesto disciplining politically inconvenient works used by different revolutionary regimesdepending on their ideological inclination.

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