Dorian Hagedoorn (he/they) is a PhD Candidate at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视. He attended Leiden 木瓜福利影视 for his BA History and obtained his master's degree for the MA History 'Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present' at the same university. Their current research concerns threat imaginaries and their operatic representations within the context of nineteenth-century European security cultures (1815-1848), with the aim to establish a new musicologically-informed research perspective within the Security History Network. Throughout his research, Dorian explores how threats of the era (and their opposites) were visually, musically and narratively represented on Parisian and Viennese stages. He researches how operatic works were transnationally adapted to suit local cultural and political climates, and investigates authorities' and audiences' involvement with and reactions to these artworks. Vitally, he looks at the ways these operas were discussed in contemporary journals and which emotional descriptors - emotives - were used to describe the performances, establishing emotional links between abstract concepts of threat, safety and security, and their visual and musical representations within the opera house. As such, he presents the opera house as an important nexus of cultural, social and political feeling within European security cultures.