9:30-11:30 • Singers
Hilary Poriss (Northeastern University), Chair
Flora Willson (King’s College, Cambridge), “London, Paris, New York: Verdi’s global networks c. 1890”
Andrew Moravcsik (Princeton University), “The End of Late Romantic Opera? Explaining the Scarcity of Great Verdi Singers”
Pierpaolo Polzonetti (Notre Dame University), “Callas’s Diet / Violetta’s Meal”
Respondent: Cori Ellison (Glyndebourne Festival Opera)
11:30-12:00 • Coffee break
12:00-1:00 • Analyzing Verdi
William Rothstein (CUNY Graduate Center), Chair
David Rosen (Cornell University), “How Verdi’s Minor-Mode Solo Set Pieces End—i, I, or X?—and Why”
Liza Sobel (Rutgers University), “Verdi’s ‘Ave Maria sulla scala enigmatica’ ”
3:00-5:00 • Round Table - Framing Verdi: Opera and Twenty-First-Century Popular Culture
Carlo Cenciarelli (Royal Holloway, University of London), Convenor and Chair
Carlo Cenciarelli (Royal Holloway, University of London), “At the Margins of the Televisual: Picture Frames, Loops and Cinematics in Don Carlo”
Marco Andreetti (University of Rome “La Sapienza”), “La traviata Strips”
Katherine Williams (Leeds College of Music), “ ‘Complete with frock coat and beard’: Rufus Wainwright’s Opera”
Marina Romani (University of California, Berkeley), “Verdi’s Forgetful Consumers: Lega Nord’s ‘Va pensiero’ ”
William Cheng (Harvard University), “Gaming Opera”
5:00-5:30 • Coffee break
5:30-6:00 • Martin Chusid Award Announcement
6:00-7:15 • Keynote Lecture
Garry Wills (Northwestern University), “The Anticlerical Verdi”
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