University of Bern, 12 May 2022 Join South African choreographer and director Jessica Nupen for a discussion of her new hybrid work, The Nose, which engages with Nikolai Gogol’s short story, and addresses the current political and social situation in South Africa. To register for the event, write to noemie.felber@musik.unibe.ch.
University of Bern, 12-13 May 2022
The Institute of Musicology at the University of Bern is traditionally divided into the areas of music theater, historical musicology and cultural anthropology of music. With about 30 employees and about 100 students the institute offers a familiar environment. In the area of music theater, there is a job vacancy for a PhD research position …
American soprano and voice professor, Carmen Balthrop, passed away on 5 September 2021 at the age of 73. Inspired by legendary American soprano, Leontyne Price, Balthrop achieved her childhood dream of becoming an opera singer. She studied voice at the University of Maryland and Catholic University in Washington, D.C. Balthrop made her opera and Broadway …
By Naomi André Opera Theatre of St. Louis might have been the first opera company to reopen and present a full season in person since the COVID-19 pandemic began. In May-June 2021 OTSL presented six events in festival format on the campus of Webster University. This was my first time at the Opera Theatre of …
By Joy H. Calico Live Performances Online: Thursday, May 20th at 7:30p ET; Saturday, May 22nd at 7:30p ET; Tuesday, May 25th at 7:30p ET Ticketing link: https://www.crowdcast.io/whitesnakeprojects This forum introduces the activist opera company White Snake Projects and their new opera motivated by the Black Lives Matter movement, including Q&A with one of the …
Allison Lewis and Nicholas Newton discuss the Black Opera Database with Juliana M. Pistorius The Black Opera Database is an in-progress list of Black operas researched and maintained by BORN affiliates Allison Lewis, a Kansas University PhD student in American Studies, and Nicholas Newton, a bass-baritone with a growing career on the American stage. Here, …
BORN is extremely proud to announce that Prof Naomi André has won the American Musicological Society’s Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award for her monograph, Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement (University of Illinois Press, 2018). Black Opera analyzes how American and South African artists and composers have used opera to reclaim Black people’s place in …
We are delighted to announce the publication of African Theatre 19: Opera and Music Theatre, edited by Christine Matzke, Lena van der Hoven, Christopher Odhiambo, and Hilde Roos. Covering a range of geographic and stylistic areas, this groundbreaking volume, published by Boydell & Brewer, is the first to provide a critical overview of music-theatrical traditions …
By Mia Pistorius Last week, the Los Angeles Review of Books published a wide-ranging survey of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis’s operas. In the profile, which provides captivating experiential descriptions of Davis’s compositional style, author Thomas Larson quotes the composer’s explanation for opera’s diversity problem: [S]ome “give lip service,” he says, to diversity and all-Black …