Opera, Exoticism and Visual Culture: The Fin de Siècle and its Legacy
An International Interdisciplinary Symposium
Thu 25 - Sat 27 September 2008
Venue: Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies and Institute of Musical Research
(School of Advanced Study, University of London)
Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London WC1B 5 DN
Organizer: Dr Hyunseon Lee (IGRS)
Programme Committee: Dr Hyunseon Lee (IGRS), Prof Katharine Ellis (IMR), Prof K. Ludwig Pfeiffer (Jacobs University Bremen/University Siegen), Prof Naomi Segal (IGRS), Dr Alexandra Wilson (Oxford Brookes University)
For Registration see
http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/events/conference/conf_opera_.htm
PROGRAMME
Thursday 25 Sep
9.30-10.15 register+ coffee
10.15-30 Words of Welcome (Naomi Segal, Katharine Ellis, Hyunseon Lee)
10.30-12.30 Prehistory
Chair: Naomi SEGAL (IGRS)
Herbert LACHMAYER (Da Ponte Institute/Vienna, Austria):
Constructing desires - Opera as a medium of interculturality and "la vera scuola degli affeti"'
Anselm GERHARD (University of Bern, Switzerland):
The search for authenticity? Exoticism, disguise, and the taste for nonsense in the music theatre of the late nineteenth-century (paper only)
Maria BIRBILI (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany):
Caught in Transition: Exoticism in Spontini's Fernand Cortès
12.30-2 lunch (own arrangements)
2-3.30 Dancing Divas
Chair: Davinia CADDY (Oxford Brookes University)
Samuel N. DORF (Northwestern University, USA):
Eroticizing Antiquity: Madame Mariquita, Régina Badet and the dance of the exotic Greeks from stage to popular press
Clair ROWDEN (Cardiff University, UK):
Loïe Fuller and Salomé: the unveiling of a myth
3.30-4 tea
4-6 Opera & technical media in 'East' and 'West'
Chair: Hyunseon LEE (IGRS)
K. Ludwig PFEIFFER (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany):
Exoticism and new matter-of-factness: Krenek's Jonny Strikes Up and the pitfalls of operatic realism
Yûji NAWATA (Chuo University/Tokyo, Japan):
The Kawakami troupe in Europe 1900-02 in the context of media history
Jeong Taeg LIM and Jung A HUH (Institute of Media Art, Yonsei University/Seoul, Korea):
The aesthetic modernity of the traditional Korean music drama "Pansori"
6-7 travel à Austrian Cultural Forum, 28 Rutland Gate, London SW7 1PQ
(no 10 bus or Piccadilly Line to Knightsbridge)
7-8 Keynote paper: opera on film
Chair: Katharine ELLIS (IMR)
Marcia CITRON (Rice University/Texas, USA):
Affirmation and Resistance: operatic exoticism on film
8-9 Wine & canapés
Friday 26 Sep
Morning & lunch own arrangements
12-12.30 register + coffee
12.30-2.30 British opera in the early 20c
Chair: Alexandra WILSON (Oxford Brookes University)
Christopher REDWOOD (University of Bristol, UK):
Unchristian Opera: Frederick Delius's Koanga
Guido HELDT (University of Bristol, UK):
Beyond the Bawling? Gustav Holst's Savitri
Steven MARTIN (University of Bristol, UK):
Cyril Scott, his years of indiscretion and The Alchemist
2.30-3.30 Keynote paper: Aida and orientalism
Chair: K. Ludwig PFEIFFER (Jacobs University Bremen)
Erika FISCHER-LICHTE: (FU Berlin, Germany):
Scandalizing (missing) orientalism:The Aida productions by Hans Neuenfels (1981) and Peter Konwitschny (1994)
3.30-4 tea
4-6 Salomé unveiled
Chair: Clair ROWDEN (Cardiff University)
Anne SIVUOJA-GUNARATNAM (Sibelius Academy, Finland):
Staging herself: Aïno Ackté's Salomé
Caryl CLARK: (University of Toronto, Canada):
The Dirt on Salomé
Hedda HØGÅSEN-HALLESBY (University of Oslo, Norway):
Veiling the Exotic: Strauss's Salomé in Crossfire
6-8 John Coffin Trust Fund Guest Lecture (+ Q&A)
Chair: Naomi SEGAL (IGRS)
Jonathan MILLER (London):
Subsequent Performances
8-8.30 Wine reception
Saturday 27 Sep
10.30-11 register + coffee
11-1 Reversing exoticism
Chair: Guido HELDT (University of Bristol)
Hervé LACOMBE (Metz University, France):
Ahmed Essyad's Le Collier des ruses, Avignon, 1977, or the reversal of exoticism
Hyunseon LEE (IGRS):
How exotic is exoticism? Encountering visual Butterflies in opera and film
Serena GUARRACINO (University of Naples, Italy):
Exoticism at home: Puccini's legacy in Shigeaki Saegusa's Junior Butterfly
1-2.30 lunch (own arrangements)
2.30-4 The shock of the new
Chair: Susan RUTHERFORD (Manchester University)
Naomi SEGAL (IGRS, University of London):
The fatal attraction of Madam Butterfly
Roberto Ignacio DÍAZ (University of Southern California, USA):
Butterflies; or, The Opera House in the Jungle
4-4.30 tea
4.30-6.30 Exotic opera in the digital age
Chair: Katharine MITCHELL (Cambridge University)
Matthew Isaac COHEN (Royal Holloway, University of London):
Javanese Opera? Colonial and postcolonial negotiations
Galina BAKHTIAROVA (Connecticut State University, USA):
Spatial (dis)Placements Western DQ Don Quijote en Barcelona, an Opera in the Digital Age
Miho MORIOKA (Chuo University/Tokyo, Japan):
Application of Japanese subculture and its discontents in Dorris Dörrie's Turandot
7.30 Conference dinner
Grateful thanks go to
Coffin Trust Fund and Cassal Trust Fund/University of London, Austrian Cultural Forum London, French Embassy
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