School of Music, University of Leeds
16 - 17 November 2010
The Symposium
The School of Music is proud
to host this event, together with the UK and European première of the
first act of Taneyev’s
opera Oresteia. We are delighted to have Vladimir Ashkenazy
and Steven Isserlis as the patrons of the première.
The rise of nationalism in
nineteenth-century Russian opera completely eclipsed the works of composers
who did not actively engage in nationalist discourse, or whose operas
did not display particular Russian musical style. Such are Sergey Taneyev’s Oresteia,
Anton Arensky’s Rafael, as well as a number of works by
César Cui, Anton Rubinstein, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky,
and others. This symposium will address the “other” side
of Russian opera as represented by stage works that cannot so readily
be subsumed under the theme of national identity.
The keynote presentations will be given by Richard Taruskin (University of California, Berkeley, USA) and Marina Frolova-Walker (University of Cambridge, UK).
Please follow the links below for the conference programme, abstracts, booking form, and other relevant documentation. For additional information please email Dr Anastasia Belina
Conference details and downloads (below) will be available from August 17th 2010:
Programme - click to download
Abstracts & Biographies - click to download
Travel Details - click here to download full instructions or here for the School's online version
Restaurants in Leeds - click here for a PDF containing details of Leeds eateries.
Hotels in Leeds - click here for suggestions of where to stay in Leeds.
Online Booking is now open :
There are two categories of delegate fees, click on the link to be directed to the online payment system:
- Delegate Fee (Full price)- includes lunch and 1 x ticket to opera concert: £40.00
- Delegate Fee (Student / RMA / CePRA member) - includes lunch and 1 x ticket to opera concert: £15.00
