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Steinberg makes the case with remarkable scholarship and analysis that summertime Salzburg . . . was the scene of an attempt to reconstitute Austria as a European cultural center after it had been marginalized by the collapse of the Habsburg empire. This new image of Austria was to be at once nationalist and, in its attachment to ideals taken from the Catholic Baroque, universalist and conservative. --Edward W. Said, The Nation Austria as Theater and Ideology provides fascinating insights into various aspects of the culture that shaped the Salzburg Festival. . . . Integrating political history, biography, drama, and opera analyses and critique of ideology, Steinberg places the Salzburg Festival in the broad framework of Austrian intellectual history. The book is a well-researched, thoughtful, stimulating, often provocative study of one of Austria's most beloved, yet controversial, institutions. --German Studies Review Michael P. Steinberg's book is more than a history of the Salzburg Festival. It is an important study of the relations between culture and politics in general. --Gerard Mortier, Artistic Director of the Salzburg Festival Steinberg is intent on probing just what the festival's founders saw themselves as celebrating and how their original vision can be understood against the background of forces and demands within fin de si cle Austria. . . . He shares his methods with many cultural historians and utilizes these methods with an impressive command, making his book an excellent example of what such an approach can accomplish. --Opera Quarterly

"""Steinberg is intent on probing just what the festival's founders saw themselves as celebrating and how their original vision can be understood against the background of forces and demands within fin de si�cle Austria. . . . He shares his methods with many cultural historians and utilizes these methods with an impressive command, making his book an excellent example of what such an approach can accomplish.""--Opera Quarterly ""Austria as Theater and Ideology provides fascinating insights into various aspects of the culture that shaped the Salzburg Festival. . . . Integrating political history, biography, drama, and opera analyses and critique of ideology, Steinberg places the Salzburg Festival in the broad framework of Austrian intellectual history. The book is a well-researched, thoughtful, stimulating, often provocative study of one of Austria's most beloved, yet controversial, institutions.""--German Studies Review ""Michael P. Steinberg's book is more than a history of the Salzburg Festival. It is an important study of the relations between culture and politics in general.""--Gerard Mortier, Artistic Director of the Salzburg Festival ""Steinberg makes the case with remarkable scholarship and analysis that summertime Salzburg . . . was the scene of an attempt to reconstitute Austria as a European cultural center after it had been marginalized by the collapse of the Habsburg empire. This new image of Austria was to be at once nationalist and, in its attachment to ideals taken from the Catholic Baroque, universalist and conservative.""--Edward W. Said, The Nation"

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Michael P. Steinberg is Professor of History at Cornell University. He is the editor of Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History, also from Cornell.

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