Opening Remarks: Estelle Joubert/Austin Glatthorn/Peter Perina
Keynote Address: Martin Nedbal (University of Kansas): ‘The Politics of Operatic Autonomy: Don Giovanni at Prague’s Estates Theatre, 1787-1887’
Canonic Endeavours in Warsaw and Berlin
Anna Parkitna (Stony Brook University): ‘Emergent Traditions: Operatic Rivalry, Adaptations and the Creation of a Standard Repertoire in Warsaw’
Eric Schneeman (University of Texas at San Antonio): ‘Berlin, Museums, and the Operatic Canon’
Rethinking Current Paradigms of the Work Concept
Matthew Head (King’s College London): ‘The Ideology of Twin Styles’
Katharina Clausius (University of Cambridge): ‘Imagi(ni)ng Tragedy’
Die Geisterinsel’s Engagements with the Work Concept
Adeline Mueller (Mount Holyoke College): ‘“Strange Bed-fellows”: Caliban, The Tempest, and the Reciprocal Canonization of Shakespeare and Singspiel in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany’
Adrian Kuhl (Goethe- Universität Frankfurt): ‘Trying New Concepts? Ideas of Musical Autonomy and the Work Concept in Die Geisterinsel’
Dance and Melodrama
Elizabeth Rouget (University of Toronto): ‘Ballet and Opera in Partnership: Jean-Georges Noverre and Niccolo Jommelli at the Württemberg Court, 1760-1767’
Austin Glatthorn (Dalhousie University): ‘“It’s the newest fashion”: German Melodrama, c.1780’
Beyond Criticism
Andrea Horz (University of Vienna): ‘Judging Between Event and Work: Effekt (Wirkung) as a Category in German Operatic Criticism between 1765 and 1800’
Estelle Joubert (Dalhousie University): ‘Toward a Material History of the Work Concept’
‘Baroque Night’