Reminder: CFP 1st Transnational Opera Studies Conference

1st Transnational Opera Studies Conference
                    tosc@bologna.2015

e-mail: tosc@unibo.it
web site: http://archiviodelcanto.dar.unibo.it/tosc/

30 June - 2 July 2015

Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Dipartimento delle Arti
Palazzo Marescotti-Brazzetti
via Barberia 4, Bologna (Italy)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Marco Beghelli (Università di Bologna, I)
Anselm Gerhard (Universität Bern, CH)
Emanuele Senici (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, I)
Benjamin Walton (University of Cambridge, UK)     CONFERENCE COORDINATOR
Marco Beghelli
OOO
SECRETARIES
Valentina Anzani, Nicola Usula



The 1st Transnational Opera Studies Conference (tosc@bologna.2015) will be hosted by the University of Bologna, at the Dipartimento delle Arti (via Barberia 4, Bologna, Italy), from 30 June to 2 July 2015. The Dipartimento delle Arti has generously offered to include the Conference as part of the programme 2015 of the Centro di Promozione Teatrale “La Soffitta” and provide meeting rooms and technical support, with the collaboration of the Archivio del Canto.

The call for papers of tosc@bologna.2015 received 211 proposals from 27 countries: Australia (1), Austria (5), Belgium (2), Brazil (5), Canada (5), China (4), Czech Republic (3), Denmark (1), Finland (2), France (8), Germany (15), Hungary (1), Israel (5), Italy (50), Japan (2), Norway (2), Poland (3), Portugal (4), Russia (3), Slovakia (2), Spain (6), Sweden (6), Switzerland (3), Turkey (1), United Kingdom (19), United States (52), Uruguay (1).

The topics proposed spanned all historical periods, as well as touching on various issues related to opera in its widest sense: 17th century (8%), 18th century (12%), 19th century (32%), 20th century (18%), 21th century (5%), performers & performance (12%), opera & media (6%), other (7%).

Sixty-nine papers have been accepted for the conference.

Programme: http://archiviodelcanto.dar.unibo.it/tosc/