Shared Histories of Italian Opera in the Nordic Countries

Shared Histories of Italian Opera in the Nordic Countries:

Migration, Cultural Transfer and Urban Spaces (18th-19th Centuries)

Workshop 3: Northern Routes and the Italian Diaspora of Musicians

Trondheim, November24-25, 2017

Location: Ringve Music Museum

PROGRAM

Day 1:

9.30-10.00: Welcome and coffee

10.00-12.00: Northern Routes

Jens Hesselager & Christine Jeanneret: Introduction

Keynote address by Reinhard Strohm (Oxford University): Historical Research on Italian Opera North of the Alps

Discussion

12-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:00: Conference presentations:

Nicola Usula (University of Bologna and Vienna): “Il Cadmo” by Girolamo Pignani (Copenhagen 1663): The Arrival of Italian Opera in Denmark

Tatiana Korneeva (Freie Universität Berlin): Making Opera–Making Empire: Metastasio’s “La Clemenza di Tito” in the Italian-Russian Cultural Transfer

15:00-15:15: Coffee break

15:15-17:00: Presentation and Round table

Jens Hesselager (University of Copenhagen): “…Pour ce qui regarde la manière du chant.” Giuseppe Siboni and Italian Opera in Denmark around 1820

Round table and general discussion:

Perspectives, theoretical approach and geographical framing, overarching themes

19:00: Dinner

Day 2:

9.30-10.00: Coffee

10:00-12:00: Mark Tatlow, Eline Soelmark (soprano) and Valdemar Villadsen (high tenor), Christine Jeanneret, Jens Hesselager

During the second day in the morning, Mark Tatlow and two singers will performed excerpts from Sarti’s Didone abbandonata and Tronfølgen i Sidon (an adaptation of Il Re pastore in Danish). Christine Jeanneret will present the Tronfølgenfejde (Quarrel of Tronfølgen) and the Rosenstand-Goiske controversy as a backdrop.Valdemar will, furthermore, perform Don Ottavio’s ‘Il mio tesoro’ from Don Giovanni, in a Danish version (‘Taarer for dig skal rinde’) using the ornaments and changes that were entered into the Copenhagen performance material by Giuseppe Siboni in the early 1820s. This performance will open a discussion on a practiced-based research:

How do singers feel, act, and sing differently in Danish and in Italian?

•What do the scores tell us about adaptability, skills, ornamentation, language, and music?

•What are the musical implications of translation as a process of de-contextualization and re-contextualization?

12:00-13:30: Lunch

13:30-15:15: Conference Presentations: Routes and Performers

Ellen Gjervan (Dronning Mauds Minne Høgskole, Trondheim):Petoletti in Christiania (1801): Routes, Groups, and Repertoire

Peter Hauge (Royal Library, Copenhagen): Paolo Scalabrini (1713-1808) and his Time in Copenhagen

Discussion

15:15-15.30: Coffee break

15:30-17:00: Future directions, Preparation of the Rome Conference, Funding

•Choice of a committee for peer-review in view of the Rome Conference (Danish Academy, January 2019)

•Outline of a publication (book or journal issue, overarching themes)

•Funding