A series of informal lecture/discussions on opera held on Friday at 12 in the conference room (third floor) of the Music Department (light refreshments provided). Open to the Penn community as well as other institutions in the area, these informal meetings offer the opportunity to present and hear work-in-progress around a seminar table.
2020-23
The workshop is suspended and will resume in fall 2024.
2017-20
Focus on theater director Romeo Castellucci
Monteverdi at 450: Experiments in Text, Sound, Image, Movement
Calendar of the 2016-17 series
September 16
Missy Mazzoli (Mannes School of Music) on her opera “Breaking the Waves”
February 22
Rinaldo Alessandrini (Concerto Italiano): Performing “L’incoronazione di Poppea” Today
March 31
Mark Franko (Temple University): Voice and Movement: Theorizing Early Modern Performance Hybridities
May 5
Maria Ryan (University of Pennsylvania): Angels in the Archive: Animating the Past in “Written on Skin”
Calendar of the 2015-16 series
October 2 (2015)
Davide Ceriani (Rowan University)
The Opera House as Political Institution: TheTeatro Reale dell’Opera in Fascist Rome
October 23 (Salvatori Lecture and part of Ciao Philadelphia 2015)
Lily Kass (University of Pennsylvania)
British Patriotism in Italian Opera: The Cultural Translations of Caractacus (1759-1797)
November 20
Geoffrey Burgess (Eastman School of Music)
Framing the Tragédie en musique: Defining a Genre
January 22
Lembit Beecher (composer)
February 9 at 5:15 (with Colloquia Series)
Jennifer Higdon (Curtis Institute of Music)
On “Cold Mountain” (performed at Opera Philadelphia 2/5-14)
February 26
Christine Jeanneret (University of Copenhagen and Italian Academy of Advanced Studies at Columbia University)
Giuseppe Sarti in Copenhagen: Cultural Transfer and Opera in Migration, 1747-1782
Calendar of the 2014-’15 series
January 30 (2015)
Luca Cottini (Assistant Professor of Italian Studies, Villanova University)
Title: Gramophones, Sound Recording, and the New Languages of Music
March 6
Micaela Baranello (Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, Swarthmore College)
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Title: Operetta Canon Formation and the Journey to Prestige
March 20
Elise Bonner (Ph.D. candidate in Music, Princeton University)
Title: Opera Buffa and the Pursuit of Happiness
April 10
Stefano Lorenzetti (Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University)
Title: From musica reservata to Early Opera: Memoria, Pronunciatio and the Art of Singing from Memory
May 1
Christin Thomas (Ph.D. Candidate in Music History, Yale University)
Title: Regulating Operatic Boundaries: Copyright and the Emergence of Cinema