A Magyar Állami Operaház bemutatói és felújításai 1950 és 1956 között a sajtó szemüvegén keresztül

The aim of my study is to showcase the Rákosi Era’s opera premieres and renewals of the Opera House through the lenses of the time’s press. The base of my analysis are the papers published in this period by Új Zenei Szemle and Szabad Nép. I am looking for the answer to see to what extent the play critiques published in the political and professional press were part of the propaganda. I also examine how much the papers published in the profesional press were driven by ideology. I compare the different critics’ writings about the same play on different forums but I also contrast the same critics’s writings published in the professional and political daily newspapers to investigate their likenesses and differences. In aid to answer my questions I am using the method of discourse analysis.