28/08/2026
We are pleased to share a recent review of Performing the Eighteenth Century: Theatrical Discourses, Practices, and Artefacts, edited by Magnus Tessing Schneider Göteborgs universitet and Meike Wagner Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
In Il Saggiatore musicale, Guillaume Bernardi highlights the volume’s contribution to theorising historical staging, particularly its examination of how eighteenth-century aesthetic principles might be reconsidered through contemporary perspectives.
“These essays offer new paths to theorize around historical staging, as they explore how to reinterpret eighteenth-century esthetic principles through contemporaneity. Those propositions will certainly provoke interesting debates: they are intellectually ambitious and deserve serious consideration by any scholar or performer interested in historical staging.”
—Guillaume Bernardi, Il Saggiatore musicale
