Crowns, Coaches, Curtains: Opera and Dynastic Representation in 19th-century Habsburg Europe

Crowns, Coaches, Curtains: Opera and Dynastic Representation in nineteenth-century Habsburg Europe

Organizer
Professur für Neuere Kultur- und Ideengeschichte, Universität Leipzig
Venue
Alter Senatssaal (Ritterstraße 26) & Villa Tillmanns (Wächterstraße 30)
Funded by
European Research Council (ERC)
ZIP
04107
Location
Leipzig
Country
Germany
Takes place
In Attendance
From - Until
19.09.2024 - 21.09.2024
By
Anna Sanda, Neuere Kultur- und Ideengeschichte, Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Universität Leipzig

From 19 to 21 September 2024 the ERC-project "Opera and the Politics of Empire in Habsburg Europe" holds an international and interdisciplinary conference at Leipzig University to investigate the societal role and political function of opera in the dynastic representation of the Habsburg monarchy.

Crowns, Coaches, Curtains: Opera and Dynastic Representation in nineteenth-century Habsburg Europe

The conference will cover the final years of the Holy Roman Empire through to the concluding decades of the nineteenth century. During those years, coronations, weddings, diplomatic events and travel of the imperial family offered plenty of opportunities to use music and opera to renegotiate the relationship between the imperial center, crownlands and nationalities, and to put the monarchy on an international stage. Opera scholars, historians and art historians will present new research and relate their work to recent historiographical debates on Habsburg Europe. The conference will be opened with a keynote by Alessandra Palidda (Manchester) on Opera and Public Festivities in Napoleonic Milan.

Programm

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

Contact (announcement)

doreen.von_oertzen_becker@uni-leipzig.de

https://www.uni-leipzig.de/veranstaltungsdetail/termin/crowns-coaches-curtains-opera-and-dynastic-representation-in-19th-century-habsburg-europe
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