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Oxford University European Humanities Research Centre
THE POLITICS OF OPERA: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
A One-Day Interdisciplinary Colloquium
Friday 18 April 2007
Lecture Room 2, Taylor Institution
, St. Giles’, Oxford OX1 3NA
This is the third in a series of one-day interdisciplinary colloquia on “the politics of opera”. The series was launched in 2000 under the aegis of the late Malcolm Bowie, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature (1992-2002), and founding Director of the EHRC, and seeks to bring together musicologists, historians and modern linguists to discuss questions pertaining to the patronage, production, performance, reception, and ideology of opera.
Tea and Coffee 9.30-10.00, Room 3
Morning Session: 10.00-1.00
Chair: Ben Walton (University of Cambridge)
David Charlton (Royal Holloway, University of London): 'Vestale Operas: Comparing Symbolic Narratives in 1721 and 1807'
Mark Darlow, (University of Cambridge): "The Paris Opéra during the Early French Revolution"
Sarah Hibberd (University of Nottingham): “Le Prophète and Revolution”
Tea and Coffee 2.00-2.30, Room 3
Afternoon Session: 2.30-5.30
Chair: Clair Rowden (University of Cardiff)
Katharine Ellis (Royal Holloway, University of London): "Funding Grand Opera in France: Ideologies of the Mid-19th Century"
Axel Körner (UCL), "An Aristocratic Theatre? Bologna's Teatro Comunale During the Transition from the Papal to the Liberal Regime"
Rosamund Bartlett (EHRC, Oxford): “Opera in Russia after the French Revolution: the View from the Imperial Theatres”
ALL ARE WELCOME
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http://www.ehrc.ox.ac.uk/opera.htm
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Dr J. P. E. Harper-Scott
Lecturer in Music
Department of Music
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, Great Britain
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Music/jpeh-s.html
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