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Staging Operatic Anniversaries - Deadline extended to 1 June
10 September 2013
A one day conference organised by the Oxford Brookes University opera
research unit (OBERTO).
2013 is a year of important operatic anniversaries, marking, amongst
others, the bicentenaries of Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner, the 150th
anniversary of Pietro Mascagni, the centenary of Benjamin Britten and the
50th anniversary of the death of Francis Poulenc. While conferences and
performances are being organised worldwide to celebrate the music of these
composers, we wish to consider the question of how operatic anniversaries
are themselves commemorated, in keeping with the historiographical focus of
past OBERTO conferences.
‘Staging Operatic Anniversaries’ will address how composers, operas and
operatic institutions are memorialised in anniversary years and the
different ways in which such commemorations can be considered to be
performative: an act of ‘staging’. Simultaneously, the conference will
explore how historical anniversaries have been depicted or celebrated upon
the operatic stage. Finally, it will also consider issues surrounding the
(literal) staging of operas by composers whose anniversaries fall in 2013.
We aim to expand the field of study in this area and intend that the
conference should bring together in fruitful debate musicologists,
historians, scholars of biography, those involved in organising and
marketing anniversary celebrations and other interested parties. We
therefore invite papers addressing as wide a variety of topics and
methodologies as possible, including (but by no means limited to):
The ways in which the anniversaries of the births / deaths of operatic
composers and of significant operatic premieres have been marked, both
historically and in the present
Celebrations to mark the anniversaries of opera houses, opera festivals and
other operatic institutions
The ways in which anniversaries of significant historical events or
birthdays have been depicted upon the operatic stage
Historiographical approaches to musical memorialisation
The staging of works by composers whose anniversaries fall in 2013
We envisage that the conference will comprise a mixture of individual
papers, panel discussions and open discussion.
Proposals of up to 250 words are invited for individual papers of 20
minutes duration. Proposals should be submitted by e-mail to Dr Alexandra
Wilson ([log in to unmask]) or to [log in to unmask] no later
than 1 June 2013.
Conference organisers: Alexandra Wilson, Barbara Eichner, Christopher
Chowrimootoo and Hugo Shirley
OBERTO: Oxford Brookes – Exploring Research Trends in Opera
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Dr Barbara Eichner
Senior Lecturer in Musicology
School of Arts
Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment
Richard Hamilton Building
Oxford Brookes University
OX3 0BP
United Kingdom
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