After the Premiere: What Opera Studies Has Not Yet Heard — Joy H. Calico and Justin Vickers discuss “Childhood and the Operatic Imaginary since 1900”
By Justin Vickers
Justin Vickers
Musicologist • Creative • Distinguished Professor of Music • Benjamin Britten specialist • Author of "The Aldeburgh Festival: A History of the Britten and Pears Era, 1948–1987" (Boydell Press, fc)
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After the Premiere: “I See Light Bulbs All the Time” — Children’s Opera and Ellen Douglas Schlaefer
Series note: The questions animating this children’s-opera sequence emerged from work that Joy Calico and I have pursued together in our forthcoming co-edited volume, Childhood and the Operatic Imaginary since 1900. This penultimate essay before my summer hiatus turns to opera director Ellen Douglas Schlaefer; and then next week, the sequence concludes …
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After the Premiere: Self, Other, and the Atlantic Ear — The Interpretive Problem of Edmond Dédé’s “Morgiane”
Edmond Dédé’s Morgiane in Two Movements (Essay 2): These companion essays approach Morgiane first as a historical problem—an opera prepared, withheld, and only belatedly made audible—and then as an interpretive one, through Dr.
After the Premiere: From Refusal to Audibility — The Historical Problem of Edmond Dédé’s “Morgiane”
Edmond Dédé’s Morgiane in Two Movements (Essay 1): These companion essays approach Morgiane first as a historical problem—an opera prepared, withheld, and only belatedly made audible—and then as an interpretive one, through Dr.
After the Premiere: A Queen Besieged — Power and Authority in Thea Musgrave’s “Mary, Queen of Scots”
In Thea Musgrave’s opera, Mary Stuart’s Scottish years become a searching study of sovereign authority, male rivalry, and the political conditions that turn public power into personal danger.
After the Premiere: From Fairy Tale to Terezín — Lori Laitman, Children’s Operas, and the Work of Musical Memory
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After the Premiere: Elizabeth Maconchy’s Children’s Operas through Nicola LeFanu’s Eyes
Nicola LeFanu, Elizabeth Maconchy, and Opera for Children (Part 2 of 2)
After the Premiere: Fuzzy Bunch Takeover (April First Edition)
Guest Editors: Josie, Clemmie, and Lucy take the reins from their Daddy Person
After the Premiere: Windows into Nicola LeFanu’s children’s opera The Green Children
Nicola LeFanu, Elizabeth Maconchy, and Opera for Children (Part 1 of 2)