[AMS-announce] CONF: Study Day on Jonathan Harvey's Opera 'Wagner Dream', London, 1 June 2007

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Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre, University of Sussex

STUDY DAY ON JONATHAN HARVEY'S OPERA 'WAGNER DREAM'

Presented by the Institute of Musical Research in association with the
Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre, University of Sussex

Friday 1 June 2007
Senate House, London University, Malet Street, London WC1
Room N336. 10am-5pm

Jonathan Harvey's new opera 'Wagner Dream' will open at the Grand Theatre
Luxembourg on April 28 2007, with further performances by the Netherlands
Opera in June. Formerly Professor of Music at the University of Sussex,
Harvey is one of Britain's most respected composers, noted for his interest
in spirituality, and for the use of electronics in his music. 'Wagner
Dream' is his third opera, and it has a libretto by Jean-Claude Carriere,
scriptwriter for Bu=F1uel's last five films and for Peter Brook's
Mahabharata.  The events of the opera take place on the day of Wagner's
death in Venice, and deal with Wagner's late interest in Buddhism and
eastern philosophy.

Contributors

Arnold Whittall (Kings College, London): '21st-century opera, 21st-century
Wagner'
Michael Clarke (Huddersfield): 'Technology and the Spiritual in Jonathan
Harvey's Music'
Michael Downes (Cambridge): 'Wagner Dream and the Idea of the East'
Klaus Bertisch (Netherlands Opera, Dramaturg for Wagner Dream): 'Bringing
Wagner Dream to the Stage'
Jonathan Harvey and Jean-Claude Carri=E8re (tbc), in discussion with Julian
Johnson (Oxford)

The study day will include the showing of video extracts from the premiere
of the opera in Luxembourg.

Convenor: Nicholas Till (University of Sussex) N.Till at sussex.ac.uk
Advance registration recommended: To register please email Valerie James at

music at sas.ac.uk
Cost: £35. Unwaged/students free of charge

http://music.sas.ac.uk/imr-events/imr-conferences-colloquia-performance-events/wagners-dream.html