29 Mar Judaism in Opera: Official Programme
The official programme for the symposium Judaism in Opera is now available.The international conference—conceived and organised by Opera Vlaanderen, Europäische Musiktheater-Akademie, and the Institute of Jewish Studies (University of Antwerp)—will be opened by Aviel Cahn (Opera Vlaanderen) and Dominique Meyer (Europäische Musiktheater-Akademie/Vienna State Opera) on 15 April, 10 am, at Opera Gent’s Lully Hall.
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5 MBJudaism in Opera – Official ProgrammeSpeakers and panelists
- Prof. Dr. Julie Brown (Professor in Music, Royal Holloway University of London)
- Dr. Aviel Cahn (Artistic Director, Opera Vlaanderen, Ghent and Antwerp)
- Chaya Czernowin (Composer, Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music, Harvard University, Boston)
- Dr. David Conway (Hebrew and Greek Studies, University College London)
- Prof. Dr. John Deathridge (Emeritus King Edward Professor of Music, King’s College, London)
- Prof
. Dr. Anat Feinberg (Hebräische und jüdische Literatur, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg) - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ruth HaCohen (Artur Rubinstein Professor of Musicology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hilde Haider (Professor for Theatre Studies, Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft, Universität Wien)
- Ioan Holender (former Director of the Wiener Staatsoper)
- Prof. Andor Izsák (Direktor a.D. des Europäischen Zentrums für Jüdische Musik, Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover)
- Peter Konwitschny (Stage Director)
- Barrie Kosky (Stage Director, Intendant, Komische Oper Berlin)
- Moshe Leiser (Stage Director)
- Erik Levi (Professor of Music, Royal Holloway University of London)
- Dominique Meyer (President of the Europäische Musiktheater-Akademie / Director of the Wiener Staatsoper)
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Fania Oz-Salzberger (Professor of History, University of Haifa School of Law and Center for German and European Studies)
- Neil Shicoff (Opera Singer)
- PD Dr. Mathias Spohr (Musicologist, Zurich)
- Dr. Massimo Acanfora Torrefranca (Musicologist, Lecturer at The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel)
- Jossi Wieler (Stage Director, Intendant, Oper Stuttgart)