Performing Arts in Changing Societies

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