9:30-10:30 • Musical Traditions and Italian Opera
Andreas Giger (Louisiana State University), Chair
Marco Pollaci (University of Nottingham), “Pedagogic Tradition in Verdi’s Early Works: Innovation, Culture, and Politics”
Marcelo Campos Hazan (University of South Carolina), “Nabucco’s Band”
11:00-12:30 • Position Paper and Round Table: Scores and Editions in Today’s Opera House
Cori Ellison, Chair
Philip Gossett (University of Chicago), “Scores and Editions in Today’s Opera House”
Round-table: participants include Linda B. Fairtile (University of Richmond), John Mauceri (New York)
2:30-4:30 • Reception, National Identity, and Monuments
Roberta Montemorra Marvin (University of Iowa), Chair
Francesca Vella (King’s College London), “Simon Boccanegra and the 1881 Milan Exposition”
Davide Ceriani (Rowan University), “Asserting Identity, Defying Stereotypes: The Reception of Verdi’s Operas in New York at the Height of Italian Migration to America (1908-1915)”
Harriet Boyd (University of Oxford), “1951 Verdi and the Cult of Posterity”
Emily Richmond Pollock (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “Life Cycle: Celebrating Verdi at the Sarasota Opera”
5:00-6:00 • Un ballo in maschera
David Rosen (Cornell University), Chair
Andreas Giger (Louisiana State University), “Verdi’s Gustavo III and the Critical Edition”
Maria Beatrice Giorio (University of Trieste), “Verdi’s Un Ballo in maschera through the Eyes of Two Artists: Oskar Kokoschka and Arnaldo Pomodoro”
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