CFP: OPERA America (journal submission)

OPERA AMERICA
CALL FOR JOURNAL SUBMISSIONS
DEADLINE: 30 APRIL 2010

OPERA America invites submissions to the North American Opera Journal, a new peer-reviewed, semi-annual online journal for scholarship about North American opera that features high-quality research with multimedia elements. The Journal is the first to support scholarly work specific to the field of opera in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Submissions are invited from all scholars regardless of nationality or academic affiliation. Although length of submissions should not exceed 8,000 words plus other media, more concise articles are welcomed.

While the journal will cover all aspects of opera production in North America, topics should be centered on composition and performance histories of North American operas. The Journal will be targeted at readers interested in musicological and historical issues, and singers and other professionals involved in opera production. Articles may engage in issues of: history, aesthetics, cultural/interdisciplinary studies, business of opera, music and libretto composition, production, reception history and performance practice.

Consulting editor of the Journal is Michael Pisani, professor of music, Vassar College. The review committee consists currently of Ralph P. Locke, professor of musicology, Eastman School of Music; John Dizikes, author of Opera in America and professor emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz; Elise K. Kirk, author of American Opera; Michael McKelvey, associate professor and coordinator of music, St. Edward's University; Howard Pollack, professor of music, University of Houston; and Sean David Cooper, assistant professor of voice, Bowling Green State University.

The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2010. Submissions should be sent via e-mail attachment to Education at operaamerica.org in Microsoft Word format with minimal formatting. Supplemental materials can be sent to the attention of Evan Wildstein, OPERA America, 330 Seventh Avenue, 16th Floor, New York, NY 10001.

More information can be found at http://www.operaamerica.org/content/pubs/journal.aspx.

CFP: Stanford Forum on Opera (Stanford University)

STANFORD FORUM ON OPERA - GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE

STANFORD UNIVERSITY

27 - 28 FEBRUARY 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

Graduate students from all disciplines are encouraged to propose a paper on a topic related to opera from 1600 to the present. Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words outlining the project by January 3, 2010. Applicants will be notified of the conference program by January 11. Papers will be allotted 30 minutes for presentation and 15 minutes for discussion.

Please send abstract as a pdf, doc, or docx file along with any other inquiries to: lmayne at stanford.edu

Keynote address to be given by Karol Berger on the works of Richard Wagner.

Join our Facebook group at:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=148509531716

Website coming soon.

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award (Queen Mary/Gran Teatre del Liceu)

ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL COLLABORATIVE DOCTORAL AWARD

DEPARTMENT OF DRAMA, SCHOOL OF ENGLISH AND DRAMA/

THE GRAN TEATRE DEL LICEU, BARCELONA

CULTURAL BRANDING, NATIONAL IDENTITY AND INTERNATIONAL VISIBILITY: SPANISH DIRECTORS AT BARCELONA'S GRAN TEATRE DEL LICEU: 1999-2011

DEADLINE: 8 JUNE 2009 

This Collaborative Doctoral Award offers an exciting opportunity to pursue a fully funded PhD with a leading international centre for research in cultural politics and theatrical performance with one of the world’s foremost opera houses. The research project will examine the ways in which the cultural branding of the Liceu through the work of Spanish directors has defined wider debates around the identity of the theatre and its relationship to Catalan nationalism and the regeneration of the Raval quarter of the city.

Please note that we encourage applications that will refine the project to suit the candidates own research interests.

Further details on this Collaborative Doctoral Award project are available

at www.drama.qmul.ac.uk

Drama at Queen Mary is an outstanding performance research centre in one of the United Kingdom's leading universities. In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise, QMUL Drama was the highest-rated Drama department in the United Kingdom. We have a strong focus on the cultural politics of performance, with particular emphases on live art, applied theatre, cultural histories of performance, cultural industries, and transnational performance. Drama also collaborates with leading arts organizations such as the Barbican, Shakespeare's Globe, the London Film Festival, Lift, the Young Vic, and Artangel. Our thriving graduate community contributes strongly to Drama's research environment, with more than 60 students working on diverse and original projects (a large number of which are supported by AHRC and Queen Mary awards). Queen Mary invests more than £1 million a year in awards to support graduate students in their study, and Drama's students are an important part of the college's graduate culture.

Eligibility

All applicants should meet the AHRC's academic criteria and residency requirements, and there are different eligibility criteria for UK and EU residents. Please see:

http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundingOpportunities/Documents/Guide%20to%20Student%20Eligibility.pdf

Applicants should normally hold, or be studying for, a Master's degree in a relevant subject, such as Cultural Studies, Drama Theatre or Performance Studies, Music Studies, or Hispanic Studies. Please note that all applicants will be required to have good Spanish-language skills and (preferably) some Catalan although it is anticipated that Catalan-language training will be offered to the successful applicant.

The award will commence on or around 1 October 2009.

How to Apply

Applicants must complete a Queen Mary, University of London postgraduate application form, which can be downloaded from:

www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply/index.html

In addition to the details specified there, they should supply full details of the Master's course completed or to be completed. In a statement of no more than 500 words, applicants should explain how their current academic interests relate to the proposed thesis, and indicate how they might refine the project in order to achieve their own research aims. They should also submit a piece of written work (an essay or a chapter, an extract from a dissertation) or a portfolio of reviews or interviews of not more than 5,000 words in support of the application. Award holders should inform referees about the distinct nature of the CDA project so that they may take this into account when writing letters of reference.

The application form and supporting materials should be marked clearly with “AHRC CDA APPLICATION DRAMA/LICEU” and sent to the address at the top of the form. Applications sent directly to Professor Delgado or Mr Matabosch by post or email are not acceptable.

Application Deadline

The deadline for receipt of applications at Queen Mary is Monday 8 June 2009.

Interviews

It is anticipated that interviews will be held towards the end of June or beginning of July in London. The successful candidate will be required to complete the relevant part of the student nomination form for forwarding to the AHRC by 30 July 2009

Further Information

Applicants seeking further information about the fellowship are invited to contact Professor Delgado directly at m.m.delgado@qmul.ac.uk

About Queen Mary, University of London: www.qmul.ac.uk

About the Gran Teatre del Liceu: www.liceubarcelona.cat:80/cms/index.php?lang=en

About the Arts and Humanities Research Council: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk

CFP: Interdisciplinary Humanities (journal)

INTERDISCIPLINARY HUMANITIES
PUBLISHED BY THE HUMANITIES EDUCATION RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
SPECIAL ISSUE: MUSIC IN CONTEXT (REQUEST FOR READERS)
CALL FOR PAPERS

I am interested to locate readers for a special issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities entitled "Music in Context." Our scholarly journal is published twice each year and usually includes a special interest issue. Currently, we seek specialists to read a paper in the following areas of interest:

Hollywood Musicals
Film Music
Electro-Acoustic Music
Dance Hall Music
Music (Iconography) and Painting
17th Century France
19th Century Opera
18th Century Instrumentation
Chinese-Western Musical Relationships
20th Century Arts.

If you are interested to review a submission and recommend it, or not recommend it, for publication, please email me at your earliest convenience.

Regards,
Steve Husarik
shusarik at uafortsmith.edu

CFP: Correspondances: Exchanges and Tensions Between Art, Theatre and Opera in France (London)

CORRESPONDANCES: EXCHANGES AND TENSIONS BETWEEN ART, THEATRE AND OPERA IN FRANCE, C.1750-1850

NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON (IN COLLABORATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM)

26 - 27 MARCH 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

This conference will explore a rich field of interdisciplinary research, that of the relation between art, theatre and opera in France from the later 18C to the mid 19C. As key elements in Parisian cultural life, art, theatre and opera all underwent extensive changes during this period, adapting and responding to profound socio-political disruption and transformation from the Revolution to the Second Republic.

We aim:

* to map interchanges between stage(s) and canvas, and the role of imagery in stage productions;

* to identify intermediaries in transmitting design to and from the stage and painting;

* to analyse attitudes and assumptions regarding interplay between media in theoretical and critical writing;

* to assess the recoverability of the visual components of theatre and opera.

Major themes which unite the two art forms include:

* the representation of history

* the nature of spectacle and illusion

* narrative and temporality

* the role of criticism

Invited speakers include:

* Prof Stephen Bann, University of Bristol (also a curator of the exhibition)

* Prof Beth Wright, University of Texas at Arlington

* Prof Tom Grey, Stanford University

* Prof David Charlton, Royal Holloway, University of London

We welcome proposals for papers (30 mins). Abstracts of c.250 words should be sent to both conference organisers, and by **1 September 2009**.

Programme and full conference details will be available at:

www.nottingham.ac.uk/moss and www.nottingham.ac.uk/nirv

CFP: Consequences of Wagner (Portugal)

CONSEQUENCES OF WAGNER
CENTRO DE ESTUDOS DE SOCIOLOGIA E ÉSTETICA MUSICAL
LISBON, PORTUGAL
27 - 28 NOVEMBER 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

Keynote speakers to include:
John Deathridge, King’s College, London
William Weber, California State University

CESEM (the Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, http://www2.fcsh.unl.pt/cesem/), a research unit at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal), is to host an international Conference on the theme ‘Consequences of Wagner’, to mark the 100th anniversary of the first staging of Wagner’s Ring in Portugal. The Conference venue will be the very theatre where these historical performances took place: the Teatro Nacional de S. Carlos (Lisbon Opera House).

The Conference forms part of an ongoing research project funded by the FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology), and its focus, as implied in the title, is the overall impact of Richard Wagner’s works and ideas on Western culture, with a particular emphasis on the movements and phenomena (the ‘consequences’) that could be said to have been triggered off by Wagner even though they might not necessarily fall under the heading of ‘Wagner reception studies’ in the strict sense.

We are particularly (but not exclusively) interested in topics such as the theory, aesthetics and history of opera staging and performance, the status of music and music drama in fin-de-siècle culture, Wagner and modernism, eroticism and sexuality, post-Wagnerian compositional techniques and musical styles, the appropriation of Wagner by artists from different media and nationalities, the repercussions of ‘the case of Wagner’ in historiography, philosophy, politics and popular culture, Wagner as myth and the wider implications of Wagnerism and anti-Wagnerism.

The official language of the Conference will be English. A selection of papers will be considered for publication in book form.

We invite scholars from various disciplines to contribute to this international Conference. Please send abstracts (max. 300 words) for 20-minute papers (to be followed by 10 minutes’ discussion), in English, plus a short biographical note, to the Conference organizers no later than 30 June 2009:

Paulo F. de Castro: pf.castro at fcsh.unl.pt
Gabriela Cruz: ggcruz at fcsh.unl.pt
David Cranmer: cranmer at netcabo.pt

Notification of acceptance will be given by 20 July 2009. The Organization is unable to cover any expenses, but it may be able to help with finding accommodation at special rates.

For further information, please contact: pf.castro at fcsh.unl.pt

CFP: National Opera Association Scholarly Paper Competition

NATIONAL OPERA ASSOCIATION
25TH SCHOLARLY PAPER COMPETITION
CALL FOR PAPERS

Scholarly investigation is indispensable to the field of opera, especially as a basis for production and performance. The National Opera Association is pleased to announce its Twenty-Fifth Scholarly Papers Competition, 2009, for outstanding scholarly papers on operatic subjects.

ELIGIBILITY

The competition is open to any interested author. Membership in NOA is not required. No registration fee is required. Deadline for submission: June 15, 2009. Author notification: after September 1, 2009. Previous winners of this competition may not re-apply, but are strongly encouraged to submit articles for consideration to "The Opera Journal," a NOA publication.

GUIDELINES

The scholarly paper should explore an operatic subject, present significant research and conclusions, and include an extensive bibliography citing primary, secondary and, if applicable, tertiary sources. .Authors should follow these guidelines.
. The paper must be typewritten, double-spaced, no more than 3000 words in length.
. The paper's title and the name of its author should be provided on a detachable title page. The author's name should not appear on subsequent pages.
. Only one submission per person is admissible and must be accompanied by a statement confirming that the paper is not under copyright by any party other than the author and that it has not been previously published.
. Papers previously presented orally are eligible as long as they have not or will not be published in any proceedings.
. Papers will be judged particularly for significant advances in research and conclusions that shed new light on an operatic topic dealing with music drama, the libretto, the history of the genre, etc.
. Topics may be as broad as the field of opera itself, which includes historical and theoretical analysis of the music and libretto (along lines of current and past critical theory and translation thereof), singing, acting, costuming, stagecraft, theater, etc.
. The jury will consider the clarity and quality of the writing, judge the acceptability of the paper for publication in "The Opera Journal," and will also rate papers on their overall suitability to be read in an abridged version of no more than twenty minutes length at the convention's Scholarly Papers Session.

AWARDS

The winner will be invited to read her/his paper during the Scholarly Papers Session at the annual convention, early January, 2010, at Atlanta, Georgia. The Leland Fox Scholarly Paper Stipend of $500 will be awarded to the reader of a winning paper at the annual convention.
The winning paper will be published in "The Opera Journal."
Copies of papers not selected, accompanied by the committee's critiques, will be forwarded to the editor of the journal for possible consideration for publication.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

There is no application fee for the competition. Submission may be by mail or email attachment. Papers will not be returned. Submit entries and any inquiries about the competition to:
Dr. Robert Hansen
National Opera Association
PO Box 60869
Canyon, TX 79016-0001
email: rhansen at mail.wtamu.edu
Deadline for the submission of scholarly papers: June 15, 2009.
Author notification: after September 1, 2009.

CFP: Politics of Opera Symposium (Oxford)

POLITICS OF OPERA COLLOQUIM

OXFORD, UK

OCTOBER 2009

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

We are hoping to organise another one-day "Politics of Opera" colloquium in Oxford later this year. It will probably be at the beginning of October, and at the Taylorian Institution again. As
before, our aim is to bring together scholars in the humanities (in particular musicologists, historians and modern linguists) to discuss questions pertaining to the patronage, production, performance, reception, and ideology of opera in an informal and interdisciplinary
environment, and to continue building a community of scholars working in different areas of opera in order to forge connections and further research.

We'd therefore be very grateful to receive proposals for papers drawing on your current research so that we can begin thinking about a possible theme for the colloquium this year. And please forward this message to any other scholars (including graduate students), whom you
think might be interested in becoming involved.

For details about the 2009 colloqium, see: http://www.ehrc.ox.ac.uk/opera.htm

CFP: Opera and Politics in the Ancien Régime (UCLA)

OPERA AND POLITICS IN THE ANCIEN RÉGIME
UNIVERISTY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
27 - 28 FEBRUARY 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

This conference highlights current research on the politics of French opera, from its beginnings under the Sun King through the middle years of Louis XV’s reign. Historians of music, literature, and the performing arts have long explored the absolutist politics of opera in France, especially in relation to the tragédies en musique of Quinault and Lully. Yet historians’ understanding of the ancien régime and its politics has shifted in recent years, with many questioning the earlier emphasis on the centralizing monarchical state and drawing attention to other aspects of French governmentality and political life. Cultural historians have likewise reconsidered the earlier focus on absolutist representation, recognizing the importance of other modes of French political culture, even in royal performances. At the same time, scholars have devoted more attention to comic opera, opera-ballet, and operatic parodies, which mediated the political perspectives of a wider social register.

In the early eighteenth century, French opera also became more cosmopolitan, as is clear from the popularity of operatic subjects, styles, and performers imported from Italy, the colonies, and other foreign locales. This cosmopolitanism begged the question of what precisely was “French” about French opera, a problem that became more urgent and more difficult to resolve as the century progressed. Philosophes, critics, and musical amateurs reflected extensively on such questions in the period’s many querelles, suggesting that part of opera’s attraction was as an occasion to imagine new forms of political community, in addition to its long-standing role in conserving the old.

Scheduled speakers include John Powell, Rose Pruiksma, Charles Dill, William Weber, Geoffrey Burgess, Olivia Bloechl, Raphaëlle Legrand, Downing Thomas, Don Fader, and Georgia Cowart.

Full description, program, and registration information are available at:
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/c1718cs/opera08.htm

CFP: Music in Context

INTERSICIPLINARY HUMANITIES
SPECIAL ISSUE: MUSIC IN CONTEXT
Published by the Humanities Education Research Association
CALL FOR PAPERS

(Scheduled Publication: Fall, 2009)
SECOND ROUND DEADLINE, March 1, 2009

Interdisciplinary Humanities is pleased to announce a special issue entitled, “Music in Context” with Stephen Husarik as guest editor. The journal is seeking papers that present music in an interdisciplinary context with topics such as Music and Nature, Music in Compound Art Forms (e.g., opera and film), or Music and Culture. Papers that illustrate the relationships or dependency between music and other art forms and/ or studies of musical iconography are especially encouraged."

Please email articles of approximately 15 to 25 pages in length, double-spaced, in Microsoft Word or rich text format to Stephen Husarik (479-788-7555, shusarik at uafortsmith.edu ) or Lee Ann Westman (915-747-5028, lewestman at utep.edu) by March 1, 2009.

The author’s full name, mailing address and email address should appear only in a brief cover letter and all identifiable references should be removed from notes, references, or running heads to ensure anonymity during the review process

CFP: Greek Music for the Opera in the 20th century (Greece)

GREEK MUSIC FOR THE OPERA AND OTHER FORMS OF THE PERFORMING ARTS IN THE 20TH CENTURY
MEGARON, THE ATHENS CONCERT HALL, ATHENS
27 - 28 MARCH 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

The Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri”, Megaron, The Athens Concert Hall, the Athens State Orchestra, and the Greek Composers Union are organizing an international conference on “Greek music for the opera and other forms of the performing arts in the 20th century” within the context of the 5th annual cycle of the “Hellenic Music Festivities”.

The main objective of the conference is to bring to the attention of specialists in the international community, the music of Greek composers for the stage, in the 20th century. It will focus on the presentation of historical and traditional genres and forms, along with new and contemporary musical trends, and their interaction with various aspects of the performing arts.

Contributions may address any of the following topic areas:
--opera, operetta, musical
--incidental music
--dance music, ballet
--music theatre, experimental music theatre, instrumental theatre
--film music
--new forms (sound installations, video art, etc.)

Conference languages will be Greek and English.

Papers, in Greek or English, should be of 20 minutes duration, and should be presented as an abstract of not more than 250 words. Abstracts and curricula vitae should be submitted by November 10, 2008 by email to conference2009@megaron.gr. Please include contact information. An outline programme of the conference will be announced on January 15, 2009 so that participants can make their travel arrangements.

Please visit our website for further information http://www.mmb.org.gr/page/default.asp?la=2&id=4509