Opera Exchange 2011-12 Season

Saturday October 1, 2011 – 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Walter Hall, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto

A Greek Family Reunion: Gluck’s Iphigenie en Tauride

9:30 am --- Welcome and introductory remarks

9:40 – 10:10 am --- Martin Reverman, University of Toronto
“Iphigenia: key themes of the Greek myth”

10:15 – 10:45 am --- Nathan Martin, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department 
of Music, Harvard University    
“Iphigénie à Paris”

10:45 – 11:15 --- Coffee Break

11:15 am – 12:00 pm ---  Steven Philcox, University of Toronto
“Musical highlights of Iphigénie en Tauride” 

12:00-12:30 pm --- Guest performances by members of the COC cast  

 

Saturday February 4, 2012 – 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Walter Hall, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto

Long Distant Loving:  Saariaho’s L’amour loin/Love from Afar

9:30 am ---  Welcome and introductory remarks

9:40 – 10:15 am --- Greg Newsome, Composer/CMC (in conversation with Sherry Lee)
  “Working with Saariaho / Saariaho at Work”

10:15 – 11:00 am --- David Metzer, University of British Columbia
“Saariaho and Distant Voices”

11:00 am --- Coffee Break

11:30 am – 12:30 pm  Susan McClary, Case Western Reserve
“Smoldering Intensities: The Music of Kaija Saariaho”

COC will curate a self-guided, image-based tour using sketches, archival stills, etc. that will enliven the coffee break for participants and also be available pre-opera exchange for viewing.

 

Sunday April 22, 2012 – 10:00 a.m.– 1:00 p.m.
Walter Hall, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto

Wilde Time: Zemlinsky’s A Florentine Tragedy

10:00 am --- Welcome and introductory remarks

10:10 – 10:40 am --- Ted Chamberlain, University of Toronto
“To Finish What He Never Began: Oscar Wilde and A Florentine Tragedy”

10:40 – 11:15 am --- Christopher Hailey, Princeton NJ
“Finding Zemlinsky”

11:15 am --- Coffee Break

11:45 – 12:15 --- Sherry Lee, University of Toronto
“A Viennese Tragedy: Zemlinsky composes Wilde”

12:15 – 1:00 --- COC Creative Panel