Opera on the move in the Nordic countries during the long 19th century

Voices: The Björling 'Opera'. A children's Nursery Academy and an Italian Conservatory in Miniature / Juvas Marianne Liljas ; Formed to Perform. Educating Students at the Opera School in Stockholm 1773–1850 / Marianne Tråvén ; Jenny Lind's Vocal Strain / Ingela Tägil.

Theatres: Music at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm during the Mid-nineteenth Century. The Musical Repertoire and Contemporary Criticism of the Position of the Opera as a Music Institution within the Musical Life of Stockholm / Anne Reese Willén ; Two Operas or One – or None. Crucial Moments in the Competition for Operatic Audiences in Helsinki in the 1870s / Pentti Paavolainen ; Staging a National Language. Opera in Christiania and Helsinki in the 1870s / Ulla-Britta Broman-Kananen.

Performances: The Introduction of Richard Wagner's Music Dramas in Stockholm. The Reception of Die Meistersinger and Die Walküre / Joakim Tillman ; Rachel the Jewess in Copenhagen / Jens Hesselager ; Performative Elements and Sources. Verdi and Wagner in a Nineteenth-century City Theatre / Kristel Pappel ; Gendered Agendas and the Representation of Gender in Women Composers' Operas and Theatre Music at the Dawn of the "Women's Century". Case studies of Helena Munktell's In Florence (1889) and Tekla Griebel's The Rose Time (1895) / Camilla Hambro.

Julkaisun toimittajat: Anne Sivuoja, Owe Ander, Ulla-Britta Broman-Kananen ja Jens Hesselager.