The 2st Transnational Opera Studies Conference (tosc@bern.2017) will be hosted by the Institut für Musikwissenschaft of the University of Bern, at will take place at the UniS, in Schanzeneckstrasse, 1.
The call for papers of tosc@bern.2017 received 223 proposals from 30 countries: USA(58), UK (28), Italy (20), France (19), Germany (18), Austria (15), Canada (7), Spain (6), Portugal (6), Brazil (5), Australia (4), Czech Republic (4), Switzerland (4), Greece (4), Poland (3), Finland (3), Russia (3), Sweden (3), Israel (3), Slovakia (3), China (3), Japan (2), Colombia (1), Ireland (1), Denmark (1), Cyprus (1), Holland (1), New Zealand (1), Lithuania (1), Tunisia (1).
The topics proposed spanned all historical periods, as well as touching on various issues related to opera in its widest sense. The conference will feature seventy papers, three keynote addresses (Günther Heeg, Lucia Ronchetti and Roger Parker) and two conference-concerts.
Attendance at the Conference is subject to registration and only a limited number of places are available.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Marco Beghelli (Università di Bologna)
Céline Frigau Manning (Université de Paris-VIII)
Anselm Gerhard (Universität Bern)
Axel Körner (Univerity College London)
Gundula Kreuzer (Yale University)
Vincenzina C. Ottomano (Universität Bern)
Arne Stollberg (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Cristina Urchueguía (Universität Bern)
CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
Anselm Gerhard (Universität Bern)
Vincenzina C. Ottomano (Universität Bern)
ASSISTANT ORGANIZER
Valeria Lucentini (Universität Bern)