Fall 2009
“Regieoper or Eurotrash? The Legacy of East German Theater Directors on the Opera Stage”
Joy Calico, Vanderbilt University
“‘Veiled beneath the simplest guise’: Idealizing the prima donna in Mid-Nineteenth-Century London”
Roberta Montemorra Marvin, University of Iowa (collaboration with the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Colloquium)
Spring 2009
“Opera Cut Short: From the Castrato to the Film Fragment”
Jennifer Fleeger, University of Iowa
“Mascagni and 'The New Cinema-Lyric Art': Rapsodia satanica (1914- 17)”
Alessandra Campana, Tufts University
“Charmed: Song and Enchantment in Handel’s Rinaldo”
Nathan Link, Centre College
