OBERTO Post Graduate Research Conference, 2019
Headington Hall, Oxford Brookes University
Friday 7th June 2019
The conference takes place in Headington Hill Hall, on the Headington Hill Campus. Directions can be found here: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brookes/contacts-maps-and-campuses/headington-campus/
The conference is free and lunch and tea and coffee are provided. Please register if you plan to attend by emailing tde-oberto@brookes.ac.uk and include any dietary preferences.
Provisional Programme
10-11.30 Session 1: Masculinity
Sophie Horrocks (Durham University): “Mon père! J’ai peur!” Fatherhood and the construction of male identity in Halévy’s La Juive (1835)
Matthew Palfreyman (University of Leeds): Vengeful Passions: the performance of masculinity in Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci
Kerry Bunkhall (Oxford Brookes University): Opera, or the Undoing of Men? Representation of men in opera through the lens of feminist critique
11.30-12: Coffee
12-1: Keynote
Prof. Dr. Arnold Jacobshagen (Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Cologne / Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Christ’s College Cambridge): The obituary as a benchmark of canonization. (Trans-) national narratives on Rossini and his music
1-2: Lunch
2-3 Session 2:
| 2a: Wagner
Bradley Hoover (University of Oxford): François Delsarte’s influence on Wagnerian aesthetics Christopher Kimbel (Royal Holloway): The politics of ‘Bar’-form in Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg |
2b: Millennial opera(s) Jane Forner (Columbia University): ‘Feminism is Humanism:’ religion and violence against women in Cecilie Ore’s Adam and Eve: A Divine Comedy (2015) Fueanglada Prawang (Bangor University): Thai Opera in performance: contexts and challenges |
3-3.30: Coffee
3.30-5 Session 3:
| 3a: Law and Order
Annabelle Page (University of Oxford): Patronage in absentia: Marcus Sitticus and the music of Monteverdi Giovanna Carugno (Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music): The ownership of operas in early 19th-century Italy: questions and (possible) answers for the musicologist Patrick Becker (Universität der Künste Berlin): Fair and court: excluding economy and vilifying Power in Bulgarian operas during state Socialism |
3b: Centres and Peripheries Emma Kavanagh (University of Oxford): Éduoard Lalo’s exotic Brittany: the case of Le Roi d’Ys Emese Lengyel (University of Debrecen): Folklore patterns, national identity and genre hybridisation in the case of 20th-century Hungarian comic operas Mahima Macchione (Oxford Brookes University): The ‘global’ reception of Puccini’s Il Trittico (1918) and the operatic culture of the post-war period |
5pm: Panel TBC
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