A Special Kind of Stowaway: Piecing together our Fragmented Heritage
When medieval manuscripts were no longer useful they were torn apart. What happened next? Join us as we uncover the pieces of our fragmented heritage.
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“Oublions le passé, fêtons ce doux moment!”: Encountering the other in the operatic canon
How do operatic organisations and artists engage with racial and cultural depictions in historical operas? What are the ethical and practical issues shaping such encounters? Early on in Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers (1863), the fishermen Zurga and Nadir encounter one another and resolve to put aside their former differences: “Let us forget the past and...
Invitations and Collaborations: exploring ethical and artistic encounters in opera
How do operatic organisations and artists work meaningfully with communities and practitioners from outside of their traditions? What are the implications and challenges of such collaborative encounters?
Singing a New Song: Decolonising Opera
In this webinar, panellists will explore the conditions of opera’s colonial past, and how new opera might position itself critically against this background.
After Orpheus, After Monteverdi - An Opera North and University of Leeds seminar
What happens creatively when different musical traditions are brought together? How might creative artists rethink and reimagine the stories that underpin human experience?
Telling Operatic Stories: Race, ethics, and authenticity: Webinar 1
An event that is part of the 2022-23 Sadler Seminar Series “Telling Operatic Stories: Race, ethics, and authenticity”
Representing and Resisting Displacement – a hybrid methods workshop
A workshop aimed at researchers, artists and activists whose work serves to document and record processes of displacement and resistance to displacement.
Acoustics of Resistance / The End of World Service
Mikhail Karikis and Joseph Kohlmaier present their current work and practice through seminar lecture and performance. Extending our Sadler Seminar Series ‘Tunings of the World’.
Staging Eastman – The Third Part of the Third Measure
We are excited to stage a symposium on the work of the extraordinary African American composer and performer Julius Eastman (1940-90).
Staging Eastman – ft Elaine Mitchener & Anton Lukoszevieze
Elaine Mitchener and Anton Lukoszevieze lead an ensemble from the University of Leeds in a programme of musical performance celebrating the radical Black composers Julius Eastman and Ben Patterson.