Conference programme
http://www.music.ox.ac.uk/assets/Wagner-1900-Conference-Programme.pdf
Monday, 9 April 2018
Morning: arrivals
12.00am-12.45am: Registration, Ship Street Center, Jesus College
12.45am-1.00pm: Welcome and introduction (Anna Stoll Knecht)
1.00-2.00pm: Keynote by Barry Millington: Manifestations of the Gesamtkunstwerk in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
2.15-3.45pm: Session 1
Morten Solvik: Of Heroes and Prophets. Wagner’s Beethoven in Vienna
Anne Leonard: The Challenge of Immmateriality in Wagnerian Painting
Wendy Ligon Smith: Electric Designs: The working relationship between Adolphe Appia and Mariano Fortuny
— Coffee Break —
4.15-5.45pm: Session 2
Richard Moukarzel: Theatre as a codified mediator: the posthumanistic ideal of Wagner, Artaud and Brecht
Nicholas Vazsonyi: Warning: Consuming Wagner Can be Hazardous to your Health: On Tristan and Isolde and Death in Venice
Laura Tunbridge: Looking for Richard: Wagnerian models for orchestral song
7pm: Drinks Reception, in the Harper Room, Jesus College
7.30pm: Wagnerian Conference Dinner in Jesus College Dining Hall
Tuesday, 10 April
9.30-10-30am: Keynote by Patrick Carnegy: Tristan und Isolde, Vienna 1903: Mahler and Roller’s abrogation of Wahnfried
10.30-11.30am: Roundtable Isolde with Cecilia Stinton, John Warner, and Anna Stoll Knecht, and screening of a silent film on Anna von Mildenburg with Karin Martensen
— Coffee Break —
12.00am-1.00pm: Session 3
Diane V. Silverthorne: Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde arranged by Mahler and Roller: the visible deeds of music
Matthew Werley: Mahler reading Wagner reading Gluck: Rollers Iphigenie in Aulis (1907) and the Birth of Modern Dance in Vienna
— Lunch in Dining Hall —
2.15-3.45pm: Session 4
Peter Franklin: Beyond the magic theatre: reconsidering a fin-de-siècle Wagner in Vienna, 1933
Roger Allen: Wagner and Wagnerism in fin de siècle Vienna: Houston Stewart Chamberlain and The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century
Hermann Grampp: The darker side of Vienna – Hitler and the nationalist Wagnerian milieu
— Coffee Break —
4.15am-5.45am: Session 5
Leah Batstone: Art and Revolution: Art and Revolution: Wagner’s Legacy in Vienna 1900
Victor Nefkens: Wagner’s Sensuousness and Herzl’s Nietzschean Zionism
Laurie McManus: Wagner Problems, Freudian Solutions: Wagner, Graf, and the Birth of Psychoanalytic Music Criticism
8.00pm: Barry Millington introduces the evening’s programme and announces a major Alma Mahler discovery (Holywell Music Room)
8.30pm: Kokoschka’s Doll / The Art of Love, Holywell Music Room (Sir John Tomlinson and Rozanna Madylus with Counterpoise)
Wednesday, 11 April
9.30-11.00am: Session 6
Karin Martensen: Anna Bahr-Mildenburg: The dark Isolde
Evan Baker: 1903 – 1943. Alfred Roller’s Production of Tristan und Isolde at the Wiener Hofoperntheater and Staatsoper with Gustav Mahler and Wilhelm Furtwängler as Stage Directors
Eva Rieger: ‘Nicht Bewegung – sondern Seele’. Cosima Wagner’s interpretation of Isolde in comparison to Anna Bahr-Mildenburg, Frida Leider and Rosa Sucher.
— Coffee Break —
11.30am-1.00pm: Session 7
Melanie Gudesblatt: Animating Opera after Wagner
Manuel Bärtsch: Wagner on Welte: Tristan und Isolde around 1907. Recordings for reproducing piano systems as sources for early performance traditions of Richard Wagner’s music.
Christopher Fifield: Hans Richter
— Lunch in Dining Hall —
2.15-3.15pm: Session 8
Genevieve Robyn Arkle: ‘The Resolution to the Terrible Problem of Life’: Wagner’s Parsifal and the influence of ‘religious redemption’ on the life and works of Gustav Mahler
Danielle Stein: The Return of the Dutchman and Mooring Utopian Futures: The Flying Dutchman from Fin de Siècle Vienna to the Bayreuth Premiere
— Coffee Break —
3.45-5.15pm: Session 9
Benjamin M. Korstvedt: The Performance of Bruckner Symphonies in the Spirit of Wagner, ca. 1900
Florian Amort: ‘…like the great Richard Wagner…’ The arrangement of Mozart’s Idomeneo (1931) by Lothar Wallerstein/Richard Strauss and the aesthetics of Musikdrama
Mark Berry: Modernist operatic canons: from Wagner to Boulez, via Mahler and Schoenberg
5.15pm: Susan Bullock in conversation with Tom Brown
8.00pm: Isolde, Sheldonian Theatre
Followed by degustation of local beer and post-conference celebrations