Jens Hesselager Editor

Jens Hesselager is Associate Professor at Section of Musicology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research focuses primarily on questions pertaining to music theatre and theatre music in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including dialogue opera, grand opera, vaudeville, melodrama and incidental music. Within this field, his particular interest is in transnational aspects: mobility (translation, transformation, reconfiguration) of repertoires, genres, practices and values; inter-urban migration of musicians and singers; and relations between cultural centres and peripheries.