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November 17, 2025
December 4–6, 2025 | Yale University | New Haven, CT, USA YOST: Y ⃒  Opera ⃒  Studies Today and New Opera Dialogues (NOD) are proud to present Who’s Calling the Shots?...
October 21, 2025
The next YOST conference, on the topic of “Who’s Calling the Shots? Aesthetics & Power in Contemporary Opera”, will take place in collaboration with New Opera...
April 26, 2023
On May 5, 2023, at 5p, the YOST-affiliated Opera Studies Working Group (OSWG) at Yale will feature a special conversation “Behind the Scenes” about contemporary opera and new...
February 2, 2022
With in-person conferences still being impossible to schedule (as of early 2022) , YOST is taking a sabbatical in 2022, in hopes of holding our next meeting as a hybrid...
August 13, 2021
Zoom video recordings of the majority of the events of YOST 2021 - “Opera & Representation” - are now archived and available at OHAM, the Oral History of American Music...
May 1, 2021
The full program with presenter biographies can be downloaded here: /sites/default/files/files/YOST%202021-Program%20%26%20Bios.pdf
April 28, 2021
The webinar registration links for the 2021 YOST Conference on "Opera & Representation" are now available. Please register separately for both parts of the conference (...