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Comédie-ballet Birger Jarl: French inspirations for the creation of the Swedish national theatre and costume

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Birger Jarl, an opéra-ballet or ‘play with songs’, represents an important milestone in Swedish theatre history. Premiered in Stockholm in 1774, this piece was based on a French model – Voltaire’s opéra-ballet Princesse de Navarre –, but set in 13th-century Sweden. The new plot recounted the story of the founder of Stockholm, Birger Jarl, and thus it became the first theatrical piece on a topic from the Swedish history. A particular strategy of foreign inspiration for national purposes is perceptible in the dramaturgical plan, music and also in costume and set design, which will be the main topic of this paper. I examine the foreign, primarily French, influences in the Swedish costume design of the time, how these were combined with the requirements of the nascent Swedish national theatre, and how the King Gustav III, true father of this idea, intervened in the process. The issue of transnational travelling of ideas will be developed by the complex question of centre vs. periphery in this case, where relatively marginal piece from one of the European cultural centres inspires an important piece in the European cultural periphery.
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Petra Dotlacilova. Comédie-ballet Birger Jarl: French inspirations for the creation of the Swedish national theatre and costume. International Conference Musical And Theatrical Migrations: Performance Practice In 17th And 18th-Century Europe, Jul 2022, Queluz, Portugal. ⟨hal-04298284⟩
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