Conference: “Decentering Opera”
This two-day conference investigates different aspects of opera studies, locating opera at the margins or outside traditional centers and modalities of production, consumption and criticism.
“Decentering Opera” is made possible by the Jan and Beta Popper Endowed Professorship in Opera.
Registration required.
General Schedule
SATURDAY
10:00am Opening Remarks: Pierpaolo Polzonetti, “Why Decentering Opera Now?”
10:30am Session 1, Chair: Pierpaolo Polzonetti
Pamela Karantonis: “Opera’s Place after ‘The Voice’ Referendum in Australia: Popular Genres and Populism in Public Consciousness”
Imani Danielle Mosley: “Invisible Labor and the Opera House: Opera Production and the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence”
Nina Sun Eidsheim: “Addressing Deep Code Problems: Listening to Opera Through the World’s Liveness”
12:00pm Lunch
1:30pm Session 2, Chair: Carol Hess
Beth Levy: “From the Redwoods to the Riviera: The Bohemian History of Joseph Redding’s Fay-Yen-Fah (1925)”
Christopher Morris: “Business as Usual? Opera and Screen Media after the Pandemic”
Emanuele Senici: “‘The whole theatre as the set, all of it’: Decentering the Opera Experience in Pandemic Rome”
3:30pm Coffee Break
4:00pm Keynote: Naomi André: “Opera’s New Realism: Expanding Narratives and Representation”
SUNDAY
9:00am Emerging Scholars Panel: Chairs: Anushka Kulkarni, UC Davis; Sarah Miller, UC Davis; Max Jefferson, UC Berkeley; John Matthew Cowan, Indiana University Bloomington Jacobs School of Music; Ingeborg Dalheim, Norwegian Academy of Music, UCLA, Fulbright Scholar; Ali Saniee Nia Moghaddam, UC Davis; Mariana Da Silva Gabriel, UC Davis; Samuel A. Nelson, UC Davis; Ko-Hua Hung, UC Davis
10:30am Coffee Break
11:30am Session 3, Chair: Juan Diego Díaz
Alessandra Campana: “22grams: The Enigma of the Public”
Rogerio Budasz: “Opera, Abolitionism, and Memory in Brazil: 1880s, 1980s”
Jessica Gabriel Peritz: “A Tale of Two Jubas: Metastasian Opera and Racialized Difference”
1:00pm Lunch
2:00pm Barbara K. Jackson Rising Stars of Opera
