Performing Arts in Changing Societies: Opera, Dance, and Theatre in European and Nordic Countries around 1800

Table of Contents

Svein Gladsø and Randi Margrete Selvik
Performative arts between rules and realities: The adaptive history of genre

David Charlton
Opera at home: Performance and ownership in eighteenth-century France

Mårten Nehrfors Hultén
Nationalism in eighteenth-century German opera? Changing views on the nation in two operas by Johann Friedrich Reichardt

T. Sofie Taubert
Marvellous changes – changes within the marvellous: Carl Maria von Weber’s Oberon as transfer between cultural tendencies and historical discourses

Cecilie Louise Macé Stensrud
Syngespill: A favourite or a substitute?

Vera Grund
‘Ce mot de Wahrheit, quelle expression elle lui donna’: The melodrama, its performances, and performers in late eighteenth-century Vienna

Owe Ander
Amphions of the North: Court Kapellmeister in the musical life of Sweden around 1800

Karin Hallgren
Representative performances, political propaganda, and the question of financing: The Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm 1773–1823

Sarah McCleave
What place for a woman? Dancing in London’s theatres circa 1770–1810

Elizabeth Svarstad
Dance and social education in early nineteenth-century Christiania

Anne Margrete Fiskvik
‘Nemo ei in orbe terrarum in artibus par est’: The rope and wire repertory of itinerant artist Michael Stuart

Ellen Karoline Gjervan
Pantomime under the Aurora Borealis: The Winter season of the Gautier troupe in Trondheim, Norway, 1839–1840

Alette Scavenius
‘Not for pleasure alone’: The dramatic societies and the theatre craze, 1770–1850: Their background in the Age of Enlightenment and their importance for the emergence of private theatres in Denmark

Astrid Von Rosen
On the wire: Scenographing affect at Sillgateteatern in Gothenburg around 1800