YOST 2021: Opera & Representation
May 6 & 8, 2021, as a ZOOM webinar (all times are given in EDT)
(the full program can be downloaded here)
Thursday, May 6, 5-6:30 p EDT
Registration link: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xMq-Xq73RvKGL09UP_XVwQ
Director’s Commentary: The Industry’s Sweet Land (Los Angeles, 2020)
Screening of the video of “Train,” with introduction and commentary by Yuval Sharon
(Full credits and the digital program are available at https://theindustryla.org/sweet-land-opera/.)
Saturday, May 8, 10a-7:15p EDT
Registration link: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7MZh5_MrTHeFpWOsU88QMA
10a
Welcome and Introduction
Gundula Kreuzer
Lightning Talks I: Casting Aida
Chair: Adriana Zabala
Lucy Caplan: “‘My Skin Was My Costume’: Blackness and Aida, 1925-1933”
Danielle Ward-Griffin: “Before the Met: Leontyne Price, Television, and the NBC Opera Theater”
Imani Danielle Mosley: “Join the Chorus of Voices: Opera, Identity, and the Social Media Moment”
Respondent: Maya Gibson
short pause
11:15a
Lightning Talks II: Challenging Stories, Staging (Dis)Appearance
Chair: Joy H. Calico
Ryan Ebright: “Reinventing Malcolm, Redefining Opera: Anthony Davis’s X”
Yayoi Uno Everett: “Saariaho and Sellars’s Only the Sound Remains (2016): Transcoding the Aesthetics of Noh Drama”
Megan Steigerwald Ille: “‘They told me nothing/They gave me nothing’: Approaching Erasure in The Industry’s Sweet Land”
Respondent: W. Anthony Sheppard
short pause
12:15p
Discussion I: Economics in the Field of Cultural Production
Introduction and chairs: Allison Chu and Frances Pollock
Panelists: Derrell Acon, Patrick Diamond, Maurice L. Harris, David Lang, Aleks Romano
1:15p: lunch break
2:00p
Discussion II: Developing New Themes in Opera
Chair: Gundula Kreuzer
Panelists: Derrell Acon, Du Yun, Douglas Kearney, George E. Lewis, Yuval Sharon
3:30p: short break
3:45p
Discussion III: Diversification Through Collaboration?
Chair: Tavia Nyong’o
Panelists: Raven Chacon, Du Yun, Douglas Kearney, George Lewis, Mimi Lien, Yuval Sharon
5:15p: short break
5:30p
Discussion IV: What to Do With the Canon?
Introduction and chair: Naomi André
Panelists: Daphne A. Brooks, Ethan Heard, Latonia Moore, Kamala Schelling, Yuval Sharon
7p
Final Reflections
Gundula Kreuzer
7:15p: end