Theatrical Heritage, Challenges and Opportunities
Despite eye-opening discoveries, exhibitions, and performances, many valuable artefacts and documents of the performing arts continue to linger in oblivion. How do these sources affect our understanding and appreciation of the theatrical past? Which challenges and opportunities arise from their reuse in modern contexts, museal and non-museal? Theatrical Heritage addresses these and related issues from a broad perspective. In accessible essays written by theatre and music scholars, performers, directors, conservators, and administrators from Europe and the USA, new methods are advanced to reactivate the theatrical past.
Theaterfeuer or Sublime Horreur, Operatic Pyrotechnics in the Eighteenth Century
Mechanical Rules versus Abnormis Gratia, Revaluing Gilbert Austin's Chironomia (1806) as a Source for Historical Acting Techniques
Playability A Reinvention of Contemporary Lighting Practice Drawing on Fred Bentham's 1930s Light Console
Divas, Arias, and AcrimonyThe Revolving Door of Musical Resources for London's Italian Opera
The Misadventures of Artaserse (Turin, 1760)J. C. Bach's First Italian Opera from Production to Performance
The Mechanics of Magic (or Vice Versa) Sigrid T'Hooft and the Historically Informed Performance of Opera
Affective Education and Performative Space In Francesca Caccini's La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina (1625 and 2012)
The Virtual Reconstruction of Theatrical Heritage
The Document as Event, Assessing the Value of Digital Collections for Theatrical Heritage
rom the Conservation to the Production of Archives, The Portail des Arts de la Marionnette, Reference and Vehicle for New Ambitions in the Cultural Heritage of the Performing Arts
Beyond the Archive, Safeguarding Theatrical Heritage: a Strategy for the Empowerment of Artistic Communities
The 'Bourla' in Antwerp, Machinery from 1834 on the Brink of Dismantling?
O Tempora, O Mores, A Discourse of Neglect and Destruction