opera
The Return of Ulysses (Monteverdi)
Roundhouse Chalk Farm Road, London, United Kingdom10-21 January 2018 The Return of Ulysses (Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria) is one of only three surviving operas by the Renaissance composer Claudio Monteverdi. As with The Coronation of Poppea (L’incoronazione di Poppea) it dates from the later period of Monteverdi’s career, and was first performed in Venice in 1640. The opera is a masterpiece: […]
Edith Hall, ‘The Age of Tyrants: Sappho via Gounod’s Opera’
Barnard's Inn Hall Holborn, LondonThe heroine of Charles Gounod’s French opera Sapho (1851) sings her last aria O My Immortal Lyre on a Greek cliff before plunging to her death. Sappho, the most famous poet of the ‘Lyric Age’ of Greece, in the 7th to 6th centuries BC, addressed passionate love poems to women. This lecture uncovers what we […]
Emily Pillinger, ‘Musical machismo: classical masculinities in British opera of the 1980s’
Newcastle UniversityNewcastle Classics and Ancient History research seminar The seminars take place at 4pm on Wednesdays in room 2.50 of the Armstrong Building. All are welcome to attend! If you have any questions, please contact the seminar organisers Dr Athanassios Vergados (athanassios.vergados@newcastle.ac.uk) and Dr Anke Walter (anke.walter@newcastle.ac.uk).