CFP: "Non-Nationalist" Russian Opera, Leeds Univ., Nov 2010
AMS
17 November 2010
Supported by Leeds University Centre for Opera Studies.
To be held at the Howard Assembly Room at Opera North, Leeds, UK
The rise of nationalism in nineteenth-century Russian opera completely eclipsed the works of composers who did not actively engage in nationalist discourse, or whose operas did not display particular Russian musical style. Such are Sergey Taneyev’s Oresteia, Anton Arensky’s Rafael, as well as a number of works by César Cui, Anton Rubinstein, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, and others. This one-day symposium will address the “other” side of Russian opera as represented by stage works that cannot so readily be subsumed under the theme of national identity.
The keynote presentation will be given by Marina Frolova-Walker, author of the recent Russian Music and Nationalism: From Glinka to Stalin (2007).
The conference will close with the UK premiere of the first act of Taneyev’s Oresteia, supported by the Opera North and patrons Vladimir Ashkenazy and Steven Isserlis.
Conference Committee:
Dr. Anastasia Belina, Prof. Derek Scott, Dr. Stephen Muir, Dr. George Kennaway, and Simon Desbruslais.
Proposals (250 words) are invited for individual papers (20 minutes, with 10 minutes discussion).
DEADLINE for proposals: 5pm (GMT), Monday 1 March 2010
All submissions to be sent by email to Dr. Anastasia Belina, at a.belina at leeds.ac.uk