Opera and Austerity

February 20, 2009 - 7:00pm
  • Film Screening - Friday, February 20, 2009
  • Newcomb Hall Kaleidoscope Center
  • 7:00 pm
  • Free
  • Symposium - Saturday, February 21, 2009
  • 107 Old Cabell Hall
  • 9am - 5pm
  • Free

image from Don Giovanni

 

 

Film Screening: “Opera and Austerity”
Friday, February, 20th, 2009, 7pm, Newcomb Hall Kaleidoscope Center
A screening of scenes from the two opera productions and one opera film to be discussed at the Febuary 21 symposium:

Mozart, Don Giovanni, directed by Martin Kusej (Salzburg, 2006)
Puccini, Tosca, directed by Benoît Jacquot (2000)
Gluck, Alceste, directed by Jossi Wieler (Stuttgart, 2006)

 


Symposium: “Opera and Austerity”
Saturday, February 21, 9:00-5:00, 107 Old Cabell Hall

An interdisciplinary symposium on operatic staging and film, exploring the theme of austerity as it emerges in this most spectacular and excessive of art forms. This event is held in cooperation with The Opera Quarterly as the third of its annual symposia on opera production.

Schedule:
9:00: Welcome and Coffee
9:30-11:30: Panel 1. Introduction; Puccini, Tosca, directed by Benoît Jacquot (2000)
1:00-2:45: Panel 2. Mozart, Don Giovanni, directed by Martin Kusej (Salzburg, 2006)
3:15-5:00: Panel 3. Gluck, Alceste, directed by Jossi Wieler (Stuttgart, 2006)

Panelists:
David Levin (University of Chicago, Department of Germanic Studies)
Michael Steinberg (Brown University, Director of the Cogut Center for the Humanities; Departments of History and Music)
Lydia Goehr (Columbia University, Department of Philosophy)
Christopher Morris (University College Cork, Department of Music)
Ryan Minor (Stony Brook University, Department of Music)
Alessandra Campana (Tufts University, Department of Music)
Gundula Kreuzer (Yale University, Department of Music)
Arman Schwartz (UC Berkeley, Department of Music)
Bonnie Gordon (UVa, McIntire Department of Music)
Heather Wiebe (UVa, McIntire Department of Music)
Richard Will (UVa, McIntire Department of Music)

With support from:
The Arts and Sciences Council
The College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
The Opera Quarterly and Oxford University Press
The McIntire Department of Music
Dieciocho: Hispanic Enlightenment (Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese)

 

 

Address

UVA Department of Music
112 Old Cabell Hall
P.O. Box 400176 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4176

Email: music@virginia.edu