Descripción del proyecto
Ópera cómica en Suecia, Dinamarca y Noruega
Uno de los medios más importantes para la expresión de la opinión pública durante la Revolución francesa, el género de la ópera cómica («opéra-comique»), contiene arias y diálogo hablado. El proyecto RevolutionaryOpScan, financiado con fondos europeos, examinará el impacto que provocaron las ideas revolucionarias francesas en los países escandinavos a través de su repertorio. Las actuales Noruega, Dinamarca y Suecia nunca fueron invadidas por Francia durante las guerras napoleónicas que siguieron a la Revolución de 1789. Teniendo esto en cuenta, el proyecto recopilará pruebas históricas de representaciones de ópera cómica en estos tres países entre 1789 y 1815. El proyecto creará una base de datos en línea de acceso abierto y pondrá por primera vez esta información a disposición de académicos que deseen realizar análisis estadísticos. Asimismo, empleará la información recopilada en la base de datos para determinar dónde, cuándo y con qué frecuencia se representaron las obras revolucionarias en Escandinavia.
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Scandinavia provides a particularly interesting case for the study of the impact of French revolutionary theatre. The Scandinavian countries (today’s Norway, Denmark and Sweden) were never invaded by the French during the Napoleonic wars that followed the Revolution of 1789, but these countries were nonetheless strongly affected by revolutionary ideas, in some cases experiencing profound constitutional upheavals. The project examines the impact of ideas from the French Revolution in Europe, by focusing on the intriguing case of the Scandinavian countries and by centring on the largely under-studied literary and musical phenomenon of opéra-comique. Opéra-comique, a very special and hugely popular form of musical drama mixing song and spoken dialogue, was one of the most popular forms of theatre and one of the most important means of expression of public opinion during the French Revolution. Yet this kind of theatre has received little attention in scholarship, be it from historians, musicologists, or literary scholars. The project builds on multidisciplinary approaches and recent work on opéra-comique during the French Revolution in order to examine the impact of the French revolutionary ideas through this repertoire in the case of the Scandinavian countries. The project includes the collection of historical performance evidence for opéra-comique in Sweden, Denmark and Norway for the period from 1789 to 1815. Through the establishment of an open online database, the project will make this information accessible for statistical analysis by scholars for the first time. On a conceptual level, the project will use the information gathered in the database to establish where, when, and how often revolutionary pieces were staged in Scandinavia. The project will also set out questions on the adaptation and modification of this repertoire in Scandinavian context. This will lead to new knowledge and pave the way for similar studies on a European level.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinador
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