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

ISBN-13: 9781032236063 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 250 str.

Randi Margrete Selvik; Svein Gladsø; Anne Margrete Fiskvik

Opis

Performing Arts in Changing Societies is a detailed exploration of genre development within the fields of dance, theatre and opera in selected European countries during the decades before and after 1800.

Spis treści

1. Performative Arts between Rules and Realities: The Adaptive History of Genre

Svein Gladsø 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

Mårten Nehrfors Hultén

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 Macé 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

O autorze

Randi Margrete Selvik is Emeritus Professor in Musicology, Department of Music, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim.

Svein Gladsø is Emeritus Professor in Theatre Studies, Department of Art and Media Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim.

Anne Margrete Fiskvik is Professor, Programme for Dance Studies, Department of Musicology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim.