Over the last decade, the theatre and opera of the French Revolution have been the subject of intense scholarly reassessment, both in terms of the relationship between theatrical works and politics or ideology in this period and on the question of longer-scale structures of continuity or rupture in aesthetics. Staging the French Revolution: Cultural Politics and the Paris Opera, 1789-1794 moves these discussions boldly forward, focusing on the Paris Opéra (Académie Royale de Musique) in the cult...

• Acknowledgements
• Sigla and Abbreviations
• Note on Abbreviations
• Chapter 1: The outlook in 1789
• Chapter 2: From crown to town: Governance of the Opéra, March 1789 - April 1790
• Chapter 3: Control by the Municipality: April 1790-April 1792
• Chapter 4: The Opéra during the Terror
• Chapter 5: Finances and repertory
• Chapter 6 : Tragedy and serious works
• Chapter 7: Comic and mixed works
• Chapter 8: Republican repertory (1792-1794)
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index