Anna Sanda, Neuere Kultur- und Ideengeschichte, Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Universität Leipzig
Thursday, 19th September / Alter Senatssaal, Ritterstraße 26
4:30–5:30 pm / Welcome & Introduction
AXEL KÖRNER, ANNA SANDA, BARBARA BABIĆ
Wolfgang A. Mozart, “Parto, ma tu ben mio” (La clemenza di Tito) MONIKA JÄGEROVÀ (contralto), ANNETTE FISCHER (clarinet), YURI DEMETZ (piano)
Nicola Vaccaj, Excerpts from the Cantata per l’Incoronazione di Ferdinando I (1838) MONIKA JÄGEROVÀ (contralto), ANNETTE FISCHER (clarinet), AXEL KÖRNER (cello), YURI DEMETZ (piano)
5:30–7:00 pm / KEYNOTE
ALESSANDRA PALIDDA (Manchester), Piazze, palchi and pageants: modes and contexts of music-making in the Napoleonic capital of Milan, 1796–1814
Discussion
Friday, 20th September / Villa Tillmanns, Wächterstraße 30
9:30–11:10 am / Panel 1 CROWNS
chair: BIRGIT LODES (Vienna)
AUSTIN GLATTHORN (Manchester), Habsburgs Meistersänger: Allegorical Melodrama and the Bohemian Coronation of Leopold II, 1791
MARTIN NEDBAL (Lawrence, KS), Coronation of Ferdinand in Prague, 1836
RICCARDO MANDELLI (Leipzig), Music for a Crown: Ferdinand I in Milan, 1838
Discussion
11:30 am–12:50 pm / Panel 2 COURTS
chair: KARA MCKECHNIE (Leeds/Leipzig)
LIVIO MARCALETTI (Vienna), “But without extraordinary applause [...] perhaps because the expectations were too tense”: Opera and Imperial Weddings in Vienna (1808, 1816)
CLAUDIO VELLUTINI (Vancouver), "Credo che tale titolo... sia per un compositore assai lusinghiero": Donizetti at Vienna's Court
Discussion
3:00–6:10 pm / Panel 3 COACHES
chair: GÜNTHER HEEG (Leipzig)
AXEL KÖRNER (Leipzig/London), Mending Revolutions: Itinerant Courts and their impact in 1850s Bohemia, Venetia and Transylvania
BARBARA BABIĆ (Leipzig), Opera on Board
Discussion
ANNA SANDA (Leipzig), Failed expectations: Opera at the Millennial Exhibition, 1896
DIETMAR FRIESENEGGER (Leipzig), Notes, Diplomatic and Otherwise: Opera during Imperial Travels to Galicia, 1817–1917
Discussion
Saturday, 21st September / Villa Tillmanns, Wächterstraße 30
9:30 –11:10 / Panel 4 DIPLOMACY
chair: FRANK LORENZ MÜLLER (St. Andrews)
KATHARINA LOVECKY (Vienna), Images of Power: Staging the Congress of Vienna and its Protagonists in the Visual Arts
MONIKA JÄGEROVÁ (Leipzig), Die Falsche und die Kaiserliche Primadonna: Two Opera Worlds at the Congress of Troppau, 1820
DAMIEN MAHIET (Providence, RI), Resonance, Repetition, and Difference: Entertainment in the Diplomacy of the Metternichs
Discussion
11:30 am–1:00 pm / ROUNDTABLE / OPERA AND DYNASTIC REPRESENTATION
chair: AXEL KÖRNER
BIRGIT LODES, FRANK LORENZ MÜLLER, ANNA SANDA