After The Magic Flute
March 5-7, 2010
UC Berkeley Music Department
The goal of this interdisciplinary conference is to take the measure of recent developments in the history and historiography of Mozart's 1791 Singspiel, Die Zauberflöte. By including perspectives from disciplines outside musicology and engaging critically with over two centuries of productions and adaptations, we hope to destabilize received wisdom about this enduringly perplexing work, as well as to propose new questions that might be asked of Die Zauberflöte as it enters its third century in the operatic repertory.
The conference is free, but please register in advance by writing
to:
Adeline Mueller, conference organizer
Music Department
107 Morrison Hall
University of California
Berkeley CA 94720-1200
aomueller@berkeley.edu
Sponsored by the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities; the Departments of Music, German, and Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies; the Arts Research Center; the Institute of European Studies; the UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly; and the Stanford University Department of Music.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
All events take place in the Albert Elkus Room, Morrison Hall, UC Berkeley
Friday, March 5
2:00-4:15 PANEL
Chair: Adrian Daub, German Studies, Stanford University
On the status of hearing and seeing in modern consciousness: The
Magic Flute according to Berger and Kentridge – Francis Maes,
Ghent University
Landscape and Time in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte –
Estelle Joubert, Dalhousie University
Mozart's Didactic Nationalism: Così fan tutte's Immorality
vs. Die Zauberflöte's Germanness – Martin Nedbal,
University of Arkansas
4:15-5:00 coffee
5:00-6:00 "The Monstrous Rights of the Present": Goethe and the Humanity of The Magic Flute – Jane Brown, Germanics and Comparative Literature, University of Washington (introduced by Heidi Lee, Stanford University)
6:00-6:30 wine and cheese reception
6:30-8:30 dinner break
8:30-10:00 FILM SCREENING
Papageno (dir. Lotte Reiniger, 1935)
excerpts from Die Zauberflöte (La Monnaie, Brussels, dir.
William Kentridge, 2006) - introduced by Francis Maes, Ghent University
Saturday, March 6
9:00-12:30 PANEL
Chair: Heather Hadlock, Stanford University
Josepha Hofer, the First Queen of the Night – Paul Corneilson,
Packard Humanities Institute
New Light and the Man of Might: Revisiting Early Interpretations of
Die Zauberflöte – Rachel Cowgill, Liverpool Hope
University
10:30-11:00 coffee
The Trials of Authenticity: The Magic Flute in 1909 Paris
– William Gibbons, UNC Chapel Hill
No Child’s Play, or A Young Person’s Guide to The Magic
Flute – Kristi Brown-Montesano, Colburn Conservatory of Music
12:30-2:00 lunch break
2:00-3:00 The Conundrum of The Magic Flute – Wye J. Allanbrook, Emerita, Music, UC Berkeley (introduced by Adeline Mueller, UC Berkeley)
3:00-3:30 coffee
3:30-5:30 FILM SCREENING
excerpts from Pamina Devi: A Cambodian Magic Flute (Khmer Arts
Ensemble, dir. Sophiline Cheam-Shapiro, 2006)
excerpts from Impempe Yomlingo (Portobello Productions, dir.
Mark Dornford-May, 2006) - introduced by James Davies (UC Berkeley)
and Sheila Boniface-Davies (Cambridge University)
Sunday, March 7
9:30-1:00 PANEL
Chair: Thomas Laqueur, History, UC Berkeley
Papageno redux: Repetition and Replication as Comic Device in The
Magic Flute and its Sequels– Hayoung Heidi Lee, Stanford
University
“Ist mir denn kein Herz gegeben, bin ich nicht von Fleisch und
Blut?” The Voice of the Native in late Eighteenth-Century German
Opera – Francien Markx, George Mason University
11:00-11:30 coffee
Pamina as a Character Drawn from Eighteenth-Century Erotica –
Peter A. Hoyt, University of South Carolina
Medea Redeemed: Moral and Musical Legacies in Die Zauberflöte
– Adeline Mueller, UC Berkeley
Updated 2/26/2010