Programme
Operatic Workings of the Mind:
Representations of Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Opera
Thursday 20 September
12.00: Registration
Session 1: 12.30 – 1.45
Rebekah Ahrendt, ‘Masters of Fate or Victims of Madness? Suicide at the Paris Opéra’
Anne Desler, ‘”La stomachevole, ed orrida Morte di Catone medesimo in Scena”: Metastasio’s Catone in Utica and the Construction of Historical Characters on the 18th-Century Italian Stage’
Session 2: 2.00 – 4.30
David Taylor, ‘The Rational Pleasures of Addison’s Rosamond: Visuality, History, and Peace of Mind’
Rebecca Tierney-Hynes, ‘Semioperatic Semiotics: King Arthur and Corporate Englishness’
Ros Ballaster, ‘Improvising the author and operatic (non)sense: Henry Fielding’s Eurydice (1736)’
James Harriman-Smith, ‘“Verse is the Music of Language”: Daniel Webb and the Movements of the Passions’
4.30: Coffee/tea break
Session 3: 5.00 – 6.45
Bruno Forment, ‘“Non son io che parlo”? Probing the Interiority of Metastasian Characters’
Antonella D’Ovidio, ‘Beyond the model heroine: the voice of Andromache in Jommelli’s Astianatte’
Ellen Lockhart, ‘To Carthage Then I Came: Hearing Consciousness on the Opera Seria Stage’
7.30: Conference dinner (venue: Arbequina 74 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JB)
Friday 21 September
Session 4: 9.30 – 10.45
Suzanne Aspden, ‘The Sublime, the ombra scene, and the troubled mind’
Jessica Gabriel Peritz, ‘Lyric effusions: Breaking form and staging immediacy in Calzabigi and Bertoni’s Orfeo (Venice, 1776)’
10.45: Coffee/tea break
Session 5: 11.15-1.00
Michael Spitzer, ‘Analysing the Passions’
Estelle Joubert, ‘Melodramatic Workings of the Mind in Lenardo und Blandine (1779)’
Keith Chapin, ‘Pictures of the Self: Monologue Scenes’
1.00: Lunch
2:00-3.00: General discussion