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

Contents

• 1. Performative Arts between Rules and Realities: The Adaptive History of Genre
• Svein Gladso and Randi M. Selvik
• 2. Opera at Home: Performance and Ownership in Eighteenth-Century France
• David Charlton
• 3. Nationalism in Eighteenth-Century German opera? - Changing Views on the Nation in two Operas of Johann Friedrich Reichardt
• Marten Nehrfors Hulten
• 4. Marvellous Changes - Changes within the Marvellous: Carl Maria von Weber's Oberon as Transfer between Cultural Tendencies and Historical Discourses
• T. Sofie Taubert
• 5. Syngespill - a Favourite or a Substitute?
• Cecilie Louise Mace Stensrud
• 6. 'Ce mot de Wahrheit, quelle expression elle lui donna' - The Melodrama, its Performances and Performers in late Eighteenth-Century Vienna
• Vera Grund
• 7. Amphions of the North - Court Kapellmeisters in the Musical Life of Sweden around 1800
• Owe Ander
• 8. Representative Performances, Political Propaganda and the Question of Financing - The Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm 1773-1823
• Karin Hallgren
• 9. What Place for a Woman? Dancing in London's Theatres circa 1770-1810
• Sarah McCleave
• 10. Dance and Social Education in Early Nineteenth-Century Christiania
• Elizabeth Svarstad
• 11. 'Nemo ei in orbe terrarum in artibus par est': The Rope and Wire Repertoire of Itinerant Artist Michael Stuart
• Anne Margrete Fiskvik
• 12. Pantomime under the Aurora Borealis: The Winter Season of the Gautier Troupe in Trondheim, Norway, 1839/40
• Ellen Karoline Gjervan
• 13. '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
• Alette Scavenius
• 14. On the Wire: Scenographing Affect at Sillgateteatern in Gothenburg around 1800
• Astrid von Rosen