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'In and Out of Opera' conference program

Conference location: Social Sciences 2, Room 71

Friday, October 27


3:30-4 p.m.
Opening Remarks
Sherwood Dudley, UCSC
Miriam Ellis, UCSC

4-5:15 p.m.
Paper: John Dizikes, UCSC
"Operas, Operettas, and Musicals"


Saturday, October 28

9-9:30 a.m.
Coffee in Lobby Area

9:30-11 a.m.
Session I
Chair: Mark Franko, UCSC

  • Paper: Mary Ann Smart, UC Berkeley
    "'Mimomania' and the Madness of Directors: On the Practical Uses of Gestural Theory"

  • Paper: H. Marshall Leicester, UCSC
    "Running La Traviata Off the Road"


11-11:15 a.m.

Break

11:15 a.m. -12:45 p.m.
Session II
Chair, Tom Vogler, UCSC

  • Paper: Cristina Ruotolo, San Francisco State University
    "'An Alien in our Midst': American Divas and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Fiction"

  • Paper: Tyrus Miller, UCSC
    "Composing Voices: Gertrude Stein's Opera of Language"


12:45-1:45 p.m.
Lunch

1:45-3:15 p.m.
Session III
Chair: Linda Burman-Hall, UCSC

  • Paper: David Schiff, Reed College
    "Decadence and Three Versions of Death in Venice"

  • Paper: Marcia Citron, Rice University
    "Interior Singing in Opera Film: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's Le Nozze di Figaro"


3:15-3:30 p.m.
Coffee

3:30-5 p.m.
Session IV
Chair: Margo Hendricks, UCSC

  • Paper: Arthur Groos, Cornell University
    "Recuperating Defeat: The Takarazuka Three-Generation-Cho-Cho-San"

  • Paper: Brian Staufenbiel and Patrice Maginnis, UCSC
    "Exposing Generation X to Opera"


5-5:30 p.m.
Closing Remarks
Chair: Kaja Silverman, UC Berkeley



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