Moving scenes

Reviews'This volume develops our understanding of the roles played by numerous agents in the circulation of drama and music across Europe.’ Modern Language Review

• Pierre-yves Beaurepaire and Charlotta Wolff, IntroductionI. National taste and cultural dominationDomestic versus foreign composers at the Opéra and the King’s Theatre in the eighteenth century, William WeberNon-French music and foreign musicians at the Musique du roi, Versailles, c.1760-1792, Youri CarbonnierFrench and German theatre troupes in Aachen and Trier during the French occupation (1794-1814), Fanny PlatelleThe revolution of Jommelli’s objets d’art: Bernard Sarrette’s requests for the Bibliothèque du Conservatoire, Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-SchwindenFrench administrators and local dramatic repertoires in the annexed départements: censorship in an occupation context, Rahul MarkovitsThe limits of cultural imperialism: French theatre in Napoleonic Europe, Philippe BourdinII. Actors and patterns of circulation‘Il faut du nouveau’: functions and issues of international drama and music news in Le Courrier d’Avignon (1733-1793), Magali SoulatgesThe adaptation of French performance as shown in Favart’s correspondence, Flora MeleLyrical diplomacy: Count Gustav Philip Creutz (1731-1785) and the opera, Charlotta WolffFigaromania in Europe: the circulation and appropriation of Beaumarchais’s plays in the eighteenth century, Virginie YvernaultCirculation and social mobility: Lorenzo Da Ponte’s career from Gorizia to New York (c.1780-c.1830), David Do PaçoHiram at the playhouse: Masonic and theatrical travel in Europe, Pierre-Yves BeaurepaireFrom the theatre box to the salon: music and theatre as elements of an aristocratic language in the Habsburg monarchy at the turn of the nineteenth century, Matthieu MagneFrom archive boxes to cardboard screens: the diffusion of French theatre in Russia at the end of the eighteenth century, Nathalie RizzoniWhen dances circulated on paper: European dancing masters and the art of dancing ‘by characters and demonstrative figures’, Marie GlonIII. Translations and adaptations in revolutionYouth theatre and family theatre: translation and cultural transfer, Marie-Emmanuelle Plagnol-DiévalThe Teatro moderno applaudito (1796-1801): Italian translations of French plays in Venice, Paola RomanJean-Jacques Ampère and the translation of Artaxerxes, Julie JohnsonThe creation of an amateur theatre in Mainz under the occupation of General Custine, Marita GilliThe evolution of French adaptations of Richard Sheridan’s The School for scandal during the French Revolution and the First Empire, Valérie Maffre‘Imitations’ at the Théâtre des Variétés-Etrangères: a subversive circumlocution?, Françoise Le BorgneConclusion, Philippe BourdinSummariesBiographies of contributorsSelected bibliographyIndex