conferences
A broad and innovative programme of conferences and symposia brings together academics, practitioners and commentators at the highest level to debate, explore and stimulate new ways of thinkingBetween the Lines: re-figuring the miner's strike
Heimat
Discovering Dante: an evening of poetry, music and art
Professor Slavoj Zizek
Sex and Sensationalism in early romantic opera
Promoting Models of Arts and HE collaboration
Skin Deeper: Cosmetic surgery and popular culture
Vengeance & Desire
America Elects
Music and the Idea of the North
4th Annual Film and Music Conference
Shakespeare: modification of text for stage
Yorkshire Universities Annual Conference 2008
The Orpheus Myth in Modern Culture
Between the Lines: re-figuring the miner's strike
26-27 March 2010
Stage@leeds
A workshop and photographic retrospective on the miners' strike.
Featuring writing workshops with poet and BBC presenter Ian McMillan, an interview with photographer Ken Wilkinson by Dr Philip Kiszely and an exhibition of Ken Wilkinson's photographs of the miners' strike.
http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/dareJUNE2010/events.htm
Heimat
5 November 2009
Howard Assembly Room at Opera North
A partnership between Dare and Leeds Film Festival. Talks about and screenings of Edgar Reitz's classic TV films Heimat, plus reflections on representations of history and German-ness, music, film, modernism and contemporary German film.
Discovering Dante: an evening of poetry, music and art
7 October 2009
Howard Assembly Room at Opera North
Short readings, projected illustrations and performance by Leeds Cathedral Choir reveal the power and drama of Dante's Italian. www.leeds.ac.uk/italian/cdsdiscoveringdante.htm
10 March 2009
Howard Assembly Room at Opera North
The International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at
Birkbeck, University of London discussed: Brunhilde's act, or, why was it so difficult for Wagner to find a proper ending for his Twilight of the Gods?
Followed by a Q&A.
www.operanorth.co.uk/events/slavoj-iek-on-richard/
Sex and Sensationalism in Early Romantic Opera' (1800-1830)
7 March 2009
School of Music, University of
Leeds
A one-day symposium contextualising the British premiere production of
Spohr's Pietro von Abano (1827). Keynote speaker: Dr Wolfram Boder,
author of Die Kasseler Opern Louis Spohrs.
www.leeds.ac.uk/music/conferences/spohr09
Promoting Models of Arts & HE Collaboration
25 February 2009
s tage@leeds
This symposium explored collaboration and how Arts Council England can support models in the region and included a presentation about DARE .
Organised by EIAT Creative Education.
24 January 2009
Skin Deeper: Cosmetic surgery and popular culture
Howard Assembly Room at Opera North
Independent critic Lynne Walker led a panel of academics and artists to explore the ethics of cosmetic surgery. To coincide with Opera North's new commission Skin Deep , composer David Sawer, libretto Armando Ianucci.
http://www.operanorth.co.uk/special-projects/talks-literary/skin-deeper/
14 December 2008
Leeds Town Hall
Conference day on the theme of psychoanalysis and sibling rivalry. Keynote address: Juliet Mitchell, Professor of Psychoanalysis and Gender Studies at Jesus College , Cambridge. An Opera North/ CentreCATH collaboration to coincide with Opera North's new commission, Skin Deep.
2 November 2008
stage@leeds
Cultural and political commentators provided an insight into the race for the Whitehouse, to coincide with Opera North's new productions of Gershwin's Of The I Sing and Let 'em Eat Cake. Speakers included David Aaronavitch The Times, Steve Bell The Guardian, and Mandy Merrick, Royal Holloway College.
Music and the Idea of the North
Leeds Town Hall, 5-7 September 2008
This conference - a collaboration between the University of Leeds School
of Music and the Institute of Northern Studies at Leeds Met, Opera North,
and Leeds International Concert Season - celebrated the 150th anniversary
of Leeds Town Hall, culminating in a gala performance of Walton's Belshazzar's
Feast on 6 September, featuring the Orchestra of Opera North. International
speakers from the UK, US, Canada, Scandinavia, Germany, Italy, and Russia,
explored relationships between music and northern identities across the
globe.
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/research/conf_north.shtml
4th Annual
Film and Music Conference
Bradford Film Festival, 4 - 5 March 2008
Shakespeare was the theme of this year's conference, hosted by The University
of Leeds School of Music, the School of Art at Brunel University, and
the National Media Museum, Bradford, and in association with DARE. Highlights
included a keynote interview with Patrick Doyle, and a master class hosted
by Gary Carpenter. http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/biff/guest_detail.asp?filmid=7631
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/filmmusic/
Yorkshire
Universities Annual Conference 2008
February 2008
Opera North and the University of Leeds presented the DARE collaboration
as a case study of the cultural role of Higher Education.
http://www.yorkshireuniversities.ac.uk/confstrand608.php
Shakespeare: modification of text for stage
30 January 2008
School of Music, University of Leeds
This symposium brought together academics and practitioners to debate the crucial elements in successful adaptation, based on Opera North's season of
new main-stage productions,
Macbeth; Midsummer Night's Dream; and Romeo et Juliette.
Symposium, 30 January
2008, University of Leeds.
The
Orpheus Myth in Modern Culture
Friday 23 - Sunday 25 November 07
A collaborative venture between Opera North Projects and the University
of Leeds School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies. Over three
afternoons, leading speakers from the arts and academic worlds explored
the enduring potency of the Orpheus Myth – from Monteverdi’s opera to
American TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. As well as the discussions
the conference featured film screenings (including Jean Cocteau’s Orphee
and Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus), poetry readings and live performance.