YOST 2021: Opera and Representation
May 6 & 8, 2021, on ZOOM (webinar)
(all times are given in EDT)
Saturday, May 8, 10a-7:15p EDT
https://operastudies.yale.edu/
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10a
Welcome and Introduction
Gundula Kreuzer
10:15
Lightning Talks I: Casting Aida
Chair: Adriana Zabala
Lucy Caplan: “‘My skin was my costume’: Blackness and Aida, 1925-1933”
Danielle Ward-Griffin: “Before the Met: Leontyne Price, Television, and the NBC Opera Theater”
Imani Mosley: “Join the Chorus of Voices: Opera, Identity, and the Social Media Moment”
Respondent: Maya Gibson
short pause
11:15a
Lightning Talks II: Challenging Stories, Staging (Dis)Appearance
Chair: Joy Calico
Ryan Ebright: “Reinventing Malcolm, Redefining Opera: Anthony Davis’s X”
Yayoi Uno Everett: “Saariaho and Sellars’s Only the Sound Remains (2016): Transcoding the Aesthetics of Noh drama”
Megan Steigerwald Ille: “‘They told me nothing/They gave me nothing’: Approaching Erasure in The Industry’s Sweet Land”
Respondent: W. Anthony Sheppard
short pause
12:15p
A Conversation about Economics
Chairs and conveners: Allison Chu and Frances Pollock
Panelists: Derrell Acon, Patrick Diamond, Maurice Harris, David Lang, Aleks Romano
c. 1:15p: lunch break
2:00p
Panel Discussion I: Developing New Themes in Opera
Chair: Gundula Kreuzer
Panelists: Derrell Acon, Du Yun, Douglas Kearney, George Lewis, Yuval Sharon
c. 3:30p: short break
3:45p
Panel Discussion: Diversification Through Collaboration?
Chair: Tavia Nyong’o
Panelists: Raven Chacon, Du Yun, Douglas Kearney, George Lewis, Mimi Lien, Yuval Sharon
c. 5:15p: short break
5:30p
Panel Discussion III: Where is the canon going?
Introduction and chair: Naomi André
Panelists: Daphne Brooks, Ethan Heard, Latonia Moore, Kamala Schelling, Yuval Sharon
7p
Final Reflections
Gundula Kreuzer
c. 7:15p: End