11 December, 2015 (Friday), 9.30am
Opening
PÁL RICHTER (Institute of Musicology, RCH HAS, Budapest)
Keynote
RICHARD TARUSKIN:
Teeth Will Be Provided. On Signifiers
Coffee break
11 December, 2015 (Friday), 11.15am
Plenary Session 1
Karl Goldmark (1)
Chair: BALÁZS MIKUSI (National Széchényi Library, Budapest)
DAVID BRODBECK:
Heimat Is Where the Heart Is; or, How Hungarian was Goldmark?
JANE ROPER:
Goldmark’s ‘Wild Amazons’. Drama and Exoticism in the Penthesilea Overture (1879)
MARKIAN PROKOPOVYCH:
Calls of Fatherland. Karl Goldmark and the New Public of the Budapest Opera House, 1916
Lunch
11 December, 2015 (Friday), 2.45pm
Visiting the Goldmark Exhibition of the National Széchényi Library
11 December, 2015 (Friday), 4pm
Plenary Session 2
Operetta (1)
Chair: GEORGE BURROWS (University of Portsmouth, UK)
RYSZARD DANIEL GOLIANEK:
Polenblut. Images of Poland and the Poles in German operetta
WILLIAM A. EVERETT:
Imagining China in London Musical Theatre during the 1890s. The Geisha and San Toy
ANASTASIA BELINA-JOHNSON & DEREK B. SCOTT:
Jewish Creative Artists and the Development of Operetta as Cosmopolitan Genre
11 December, 2015 (Friday), 6pm
Concert
Piano works by Karl Goldmark
TIHAMÉR HLAVACSEK & FERENC JÁNOS SZABÓ (piano)
12 December, 2015 (Saturday), 9.30am
Parallel Session 3/A
19th Century
Chair: RYSZARD GOLIANEK (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
IMRE KOVÁCS:
Liszt’s Hungaro-European Synthesis. Comments Relating to the Cultural-Historical Context of The Three Holy Kings March of the Christus Oratorio
ARTHUR KAPTAINIS:
Negotiating Identity: Goldmark’s Die Königin von Saba and its Critics
INGEBORG ZECHNER:
Orientalismus als Kategorie des Komischen. Le Caïd von Ambroise Thomas
Parallel Session 3/B
National Identity in Contemporary Opera
Chair: ANNA DALOS (Institute of Musicology, RCH HAS, Budapest)
CHRISTINA MICHAEL:
Manos Hadjidakis’ Early Compositions for Contemporary Greek Theatre (1946-1965): Hellenicity at Stake
VERENA MOGL:
An Impossible Remembrance. Mieczysław Weinberg’s Opera Passažirka op. 97
Coffee break
12 December, 2015 (Saturday), 11.30am
Parallel Session 4/A
Operetta (2)
Chair: WILLIAM A. EVERETT (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA)
LISA FEURZEIG:
Exotic, Modern, Vulgar: How Austria-Hungary Perceived America, through Kálmán’s Herzogin von Chicago in 1928 and 2004
GEORGE BURROWS:
Lute Song as Oriental Phantasy: Raymond Scott and Jewish-American Identity
SUSANNE SCHEIBLHOFER:
Tomorrow Belongs To Me: The Journey of a Show Tune from Broadway to Rechtsrock
Parallel Session 4/B
National Identity in Opera
Chair: ANASTASIA BELINA-JOHNSON (Royal College of Music, London, UK)
TATJANA MARKOVIĆ:
Ottoman Legacy and Oriental Self in Serbian Opera
LAUMA MELLĒNA-BARTKEVIČA:
Representations of National Identity in Opera: Latvian Case
ANA OLIC:
The Construction of a Cultural Identity of Dalmatia. About Josip Hatze’s Adel and Mara
Lunch
12 December, 2015 (Saturday), 2pm
Visiting the Exhibitions of the Museum of Music History
(Institute of Musicology, RCH HAS)
12 December, 2015 (Saturday), 3pm
Plenary Session 5
Fin-de-Siècle
Chair: DAVID BRODBECK (University of California, Irvine, USA)
JIŘÍ KOPECKÝ:
Karl Goldmark and Czech National Opera. The Final Operas of Antonín Dvořák and Zdeněk Fibich
FERENC JÁNOS SZABÓ:
Eroticism and Exoticism in Performance Style. Elza Szamosi, an Exotic Femme Fatale
MARC BROOKS:
(In)visible Identities: Homosexuality, Jewishness, and Masculinity in Zemlinsky’s Der König Kandaules
Coffee break
12 December, 2015 (Saturday), 5pm
Plenary Session 6
Karl Goldmark (2)
Chair: TIBOR TALLIÁN (Institute of Musicology, RCH HAS, Budapest)
THOMAS AIGNER:
Zur Entstehungs- und Fassungsgeschichte von Karl Goldmarks Erstlingsoper Die Königin von Saba
PETER P. PACHL:
Das Heimchen am Herd. Goldmarks Beitrag zum Genre Märchenoper am Ende des 19. im Übergang zum 20. Jahrhundert
BRANKO LADIČ:
Karl Goldmark und seine späten Opernwerke