Conference Programme
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Operatic Geographies, Urban Identities
18-19 September 2014
Thursday 18th September
1.00-2.00: Registration
2.00-3.30: Session 1: Operatic tales in the 18th – early 19th centuries
Susan Rutherford: chair
The Operatic Geographies of the Novel in Eighteenth-Century France
Downing A. Thomas (University of Iowa)
Tom and Jerry and Don Giovanni; or, Operatic Geography in 1820s London
Jonathan Hicks (King’s College London)
Delirious hopes: Napoleonic Milan and the Rise of Modern Italian Operatic
Criticism
Emanuele Senici (Università di Roma La Sapienza)
3.30-4.00: Tea
4.00-6.00: Session 2: Opera on tour
Flora Willson: chair/respondent
French Grand Opera: A Tale of Two Cities
Sarah Hibberd (University of Nottingham)
Verdi’s Otello: On the Threshold
Gavin Williams (Jesus College, Cambridge)
L’italiana in Calcutta
Benjamin Walton (University of Cambridge)
Thomas Quinlan’s “All-Red” Opera Tours, 1912 and 1913
Kerry Murphy (University of Melbourne)
Friday 19th September
9.00-11.00: Session 3: Opera houses in the 18th– & 19th-century city
Suzanne Aspden: chair
Building Presence: Opera House Projects in 18th-Century France
Jérôme Brillaud (University of Manchester)
London’s Opera House in the Urban Landscape
Michael Burden (New College, Oxford)
Opera, Cosmopolitanism, and the Carnival Entertainment Package in
Eighteenth-Century Turin
Margaret Butler (University of Florida)
“E’ quella Venezia?”: Opera as Tour-Guide in Nineteenth-Century Italy
Susan Rutherford (University of Manchester)
11.00-11.30: Coffee
11.30-12.30: Session 4: Manipulating the masses
Emanuele Senici: chair
Gianni Schicchi and Tuscan Revivalism
Arman Schwartz (University of Birmingham)
‘Come to the mirror!’ Phantoms of the Opera – Staging the City
Peter Franklin (University of Oxford)
12.30-2.00: Lunch
2.00-3.00: Session 5: Escaping the urban
Sarah Hibberd: chair
Southern French Regionalism and the Importance of the Outdoors
Katharine Ellis (University of Bristol)
Pastoral Retreats: Playing at Arcadia in the Eighteenth and Twentieth
Centuries
Suzanne Aspden (University of Oxford)
3.00-3.30: Tea
3.30-4.30: Session 6: Configuring modernity
Roger Parker: chair/respondent
Opera, Exhibition Space and the Public Imagination
Klaus van den Berg (University of Tennessee)
High-Rise Opera House: La bohème in Bern
Christopher Morris (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
4.30-5.00: concluding remarks and discussion