Program "Plays, Places and Participants"

Plays, Places and Participants
Light Opera, Dance and Theatre around 1800

Monday November 4th

10.30 Coffee, tea and registration

11.00 Welcome

11.30 Keynote lecture by Sarah McCleave: What Place for a Woman? Theatre Dance in late Georgian London

12.15 Lunch

13.15 Vera Grund: “Ce mot de Wahrheit, quelle expression elle lui donna” – the Melodrama, its Performances and Performers in late Eighteenth-Century Vienna

13.45 Sanna Iitti: The Sentimental Style in W.A. Mozart’s Cosi van tutte

14.15 Mårten Nehrfors: Changing Views on Nationalism in late 18th Century German Opera

14.45 Coffee break

15.00 Anne Helgesen: A Cither and Purse: Reception and Evaluation of Musical Performances by Berit Pynten

15.30 Anne M. Fiskvik: Two Itinerant Dancing Couples who contributed to Norwegian Dance History

End by 16:00

18:00 Evening excursion to and guided tour of Ringve Museum (http://ringve.no/en/ )

Tuesday November 5th

09.15 Keynote lecture by David Charlton: Identities of Opéra-comique: Questions of Private Performance and Ownership

10.00 Coffee break

10.30 Katherine Hambridge: Performing History: Musical Representations of the Past at the Berlin Nationaltheater, 1800–1815

11.00 Jens Hesselager: Musical Battles in “Vormärz” Denmark: Siegfried Saloman in Copenhagen – Tordenskjold at Dynekilen

11.30 Sofie Taubert: Preparing Wonder and Spectacle for the Romantic Era: Carl Maria von Weber’s Oberon as Transfer of Cultural Tendencies and Historical Discourses

12.00 Lunch

13.00 Owe Ander: Four Marriages and a Funeral: The Kapellmeisters in Musical Life in Sweden around 1800

13.30 Karin Hallgren: Representative Performances and Political Propaganda: The Royal Theatre in Stockholm 1810–1850

14.00 Astrid von Rosen: Re-theorizing Theatrical Space as Affective Intensity: Sillgateteatern, Transformation, and Corporeality in Gothenburg around 1800

14.30 Coffee break

14.45 Martin Wåhlberg: Opéra-comique, the Novel and the Hierarchy of Genres in Eighteenth Century France

15.15 Panel. End by 16:00

19:00: Conference dinner at Rica Nidelven Hotel

Wednesday November 6th

09.15 Keynote lecture by Susan Maslan: Democratizing the Theater in Revolutionary France

10.00 Coffee break

10.30 Judith Hawley: Elizabeth and Keppel Craven and the Domestic Drama of Mother–Son Relations

11.00 Jonathan Hicks: Tom and Jerry and Don Giovanni; or, Theatrical Life in 1820s London

11.30 Oskar Cox Jensen: The Street as a Stage; or, The Afterlives of Theatrical Songs in England, 1803–1815

12.00 Lunch

13.00 Alette Scavenius: The Dramatic Societies and the Theatrecraze 1770–1850 and their Importance for the Private Theatres in Denmark

13.30 Jørgen Langdalen: The Dandy in the Theatre – Transformations of Genres and Audience Experiences in Kierkegaard’s Copenhagen

14.00 Coffee break

14.15 Cecilie L. M. Stensrud: Light Opera – a Favourite or a Substitute?

14.45 Panel

11.30 Final discussions and closing. End by 16:00