CALL FOR PAPERS
“NON-NATIONALIST” RUSSIAN OPERA: INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
17-18 November 2010
Supported by Leeds University Centre for Opera Studies, Leeds Literary and Philosophical Society, Music and Letters, and Royal Musical Association.
To be held at the Howard Assembly Room at Opera North, and School of Music, University of Leeds, UK
The rise of nationalism in nineteenth-century Russian opera completely eclipsed the works of composers who did not actively engage in nationalist discourse, or whose operas did not display particular Russian musical style. Such are Sergey Taneyev’s Oresteia, Anton Arensky’s Rafael, as well as a number of works by César Cui, Anton Rubinstein, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, and others. This symposium will address the “other” side of Russian opera as represented by stage works that cannot so readily be subsumed under the theme of national identity.
The keynote presentations will be given by Richard Taruskin and Marina Frolova-Walker.
The symposium will close with the UK premiere of the first act of Taneyev’s Oresteia, supported by the Opera North and patrons Vladimir Ashkenazy and Steven Isserlis.
Symposium Committee:
Dr Anastasia Belina, Prof. Derek Scott, Dr Stephen Muir, Dr George Kennaway, and Simon Desbruslais.
Proposals (250 words) are invited for individual papers (20 minutes, with 10 minutes discussion).
DEADLINE for proposals: 5pm (GMT), Monday 1 March 2010
All enquiries and submissions to be sent by email to Dr Anastasia Belina, at [log in to unmask]
Dr Anastasia Belina
LUCOS (Leeds University Centre for Opera Studies)
School of Music
University of Leeds
Leeds, LS2 9JT
UK
+44 (0)7896413150
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