MLA Commons | MS Opera and Musical Performance | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/opera-and-musical-performance/ Activity feed for the group, MS Opera and Musical Performance. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:04:46 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 f072c9d14b6bb9d35fa714dfb374efa3 johnpendergast started the topic CfP MLA 2025 Opera and Musical Performance, 01/9-12/2025, New Orleans in the discussion MS Opera and Musical Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/opera-and-musical-performance/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2025-opera-and-musical-performance-01-9-12-2025-new-orleans/ Wed, 28 Feb 2024 20:05:07 -0500 “Horizons of Musical Adaptation: Audibility, Visibility, Media and Performance”

Musical adaptations from literary texts (see Broomfield-McHugh 2019; Elliott 2020; Hutcheon 2006; Leitch 2007, 2023, etc.) make the invisible (e.g. context, subtext) audible, and perhaps visible anew (e.g. staging, cinematography)—re/shaping meaning and recep…[Read more]

]]> 0 9aac2eff3f677dbcee23a93dbce75fcc Sydney Boyd started the topic Soliciting Suggestions for Election to Executive Committee in the discussion MS Opera and Musical Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/opera-and-musical-performance/forum/topic/soliciting-suggestions-for-election-to-executive-committee/ Thu, 13 Jan 2022 20:29:28 -0500 The MS Opera and Musical Performance forum executive committee is actively soliciting suggestions for nomination to the committee. Please respond here or reach out directly if you or someone you know would be interested in serving, ideally before January 21, 2022.

]]> 0 81e2e91c9df4a1f1a984d9ce6970a09c Kendra Leonard deposited Louise Talma: a Life in Composition in the group MS Opera and Musical Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1765920/ Wed, 12 Jan 2022 02:27:58 -0500 Analysis of composer Louise Talma’s music using autobiographical theory

]]> 0 9c90999046a0dcd4dcb61b3eaf60d98b Kendra Leonard deposited The Art Songs of Louise Talma in the group MS Opera and Musical Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1765919/ Wed, 12 Jan 2022 02:27:26 -0500 Analysis and scholarly editions of composer Louise Talma’s works for single voice and piano.

]]> 0 e6c50efed498dbf49f63e9bfcc9be2e8 Kendra Leonard deposited Review: Katherine R. Larson, The Matter of Song in Early England in the group MS Opera and Musical Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1753235/ Thu, 30 Sep 2021 02:23:40 -0400 Review of Katherine R. Larson, The Matter of Song in Early England. Abstract: Katherine R. Larson’s The Matter of Song in Early England is an exceptional study. It offers the perspective not just of an academic—Larson is professor of English at the University of Toronto—but also that of a performer, as Larson is an ac- complished singer. In this…[Read more]

]]> 0 1fcfa334fe3a9cdc91915fde6ef25b6f Sydney Boyd started the topic Full-length CFP for MLA 2022 in the discussion MS Opera and Musical Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/opera-and-musical-performance/forum/topic/full-length-cfp-for-mla-2022/ Fri, 19 Feb 2021 16:23:58 -0500 A postscript to my previous post on CFPs for MLA 2022: Here is a more detailed description of “Found in Translation: Opera Among Languages” panel.

In keeping with the MLA 2022 conference theme of Multilingual US, the Executive Committee of the Media Studies Forum on Opera and Musical Performance has announced the following guaranteed session: Foun…[Read more]

]]> 0 febfb6ac8e0e530c5372fc08d5fc4266 Sydney Boyd started the topic Opera and Musical Performance Forum CFP for MLA 2022 in the discussion MS Opera and Musical Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/opera-and-musical-performance/forum/topic/opera-and-musical-performance-forum-cfp-for-mla-2022/ Thu, 18 Feb 2021 20:06:36 -0500 In anticipation of MLA 2022, the MS Opera and Musical Performance forum is pleased to announce two calls for papers, the second of which is in collaboration with the Drama and Performance forum:

Found in Translation: Opera Among Languages

Many librettos are written in a language other than that of their source text. What interesting results…[Read more]

]]> 0 3346e4f386088b1ce38ad3eefec3605d Kristin Moriah deposited On the Record: Sissieretta Jones and Black Feminist Recording Praxes in the group MS Opera and Musical Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1727471/ Sun, 14 Feb 2021 03:54:21 -0500 In this article, I examine how Sissieretta Jones (frequently described as America’s first Black superstar, among other superlatives) strategically leveraged her European performance reviews in order to increase her listenership and wages in the United States. Jones toured Europe for the first (and only) time from February until November in 1895. A…[Read more]

]]> 0 58a707269dcec39679f68c68ee3a244d Sydney Boyd started the topic Women & Language CFP in the discussion MS Opera and Musical Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/opera-and-musical-performance/forum/topic/women-language-cfp-5/ Thu, 09 Jul 2020 13:20:25 -0400 Call for Papers | Women & Language

Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University            

Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]

]]> 0 53f0ddf47563c28a2777d588e3072cd0 James Gifford deposited Political & Social History of Music (Study Guide PDF) in the group MS Opera and Musical Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1691933/ Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:25:24 -0400 An introduction to music appreciation and history that emphasizes the political, cultural, and social influences on music from antiquity to the 20th century. Contents include sacred and secular, vocal and instrumental, and folk and art music from across the Western world, including modern popular song. No previous musical experience necessary. All…[Read more]

]]> 0 487ff4a6dc595f1d8403471ed8ad3038 Sydney Boyd started the topic CFP Guaranteed Session: Opera after World War II in the discussion MS Opera and Musical Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/opera-and-musical-performance/forum/topic/cfp-guaranteed-session-opera-after-world-war-ii-2/ Mon, 02 Mar 2020 16:56:40 -0500 The executive committee of the MLA Forum on Opera and Musical Performance has issued a call for papers for a session at the 2021 convention, “Opera after World War II: Production, Memory, Mourning,” on “how operatic productions after World War II participate in, elide, or mediate historical catastrophe or radical discontinuity.” The word limit f…[Read more]

]]> 0 b4cc58048df924cd62f1949177e871f6 Cynthia Chase started the topic Voice: Remediated Embodiments, #414--"The Pitch of the Voice" & more in the discussion MS Opera and Musical Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/opera-and-musical-performance/forum/topic/voice-remediated-embodiments-414-the-pitch-of-the-voice-more/ Fri, 10 Jan 2020 21:59:31 -0500 Come at 5:15 to 6:30 today, Fri., to Willow A in the Sheraton, for “‘Allo, c’est toi?’: Questioning the Telephone in La Voix Humaine” — by Jeremy Glazier

“The Diva as Hologram: opera, liveness, and audiovisual remediation” — by Joao Pedro Cachopo, U. of Lisbon

“The Pitch of the Voice: Beckett and Feldman’s Antiopera Neither” by Sydney…[Read more]

]]> 0 eb242f64bbf965da89c4fa9124934ce4 Kendra Leonard deposited Review: Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen in the group MS Opera and Musical Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1625134/ Thu, 06 Dec 2018 16:30:25 -0500 Review of James Cook, Alexander Kolassa, and Adam Whittaker, eds.
Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and
Screen. Ashgate Screen Music Series. New York and London:
Routledge, 2018. xii, 259 pp. ISBN: 9781138287471 (hardback).

]]> 0 d82f18a1745a9058a2cf44c8a2fb880e Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Opera as a Literary and Dramatic Form https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/opera-and-musical-performance/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2019-forum-delegate-election-42/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:38:39 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

]]> 0 09e3f7ecbf2c208787d5ea6eab202aba James Gifford deposited HUMN 3220: Political & Social History of Music in the group MS Opera and Musical Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1579821/ Sat, 26 Aug 2017 20:09:59 -0400 An introduction to music appreciation and history that emphasizes the political, cultural, and social influences on music from antiquity to the 20th century. Contents include sacred and secular, vocal and instrumental, and folk and art music from across the Western world, including modern popular song. No previous musical experience necessary. All…[Read more]

]]> 0 de8cf020828437b9c6ff2c5c10f7441a Adewale Bankole Ajayi deposited Performance and Orality as Cultural and Pragmatic Strategies in the Musical Performance of 9ice in the group MS Opera and Musical Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1573749/ Sat, 10 Jun 2017 20:24:32 -0400 Coloniality is a complex heritage encapsulating complex cultural challenges confronting the performance artist. Nigerian musical production appears to have been operating in a world without borders since the advent of colonialism. There have been non-indigenous forms brought into the cultural landscape which have challenged the performers. The…[Read more]

]]> 0 7b7937c7e9681fea3c7accde4d2b8bb0 Carol Zuses started the topic First Forum Delegate Election: Call for Membership Suggestions in the discussion Opera as a Literary and Dramatic Form https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/opera-and-musical-performance/forum/topic/first-forum-delegate-election-call-for-membership-suggestions/ Thu, 03 Nov 2016 16:55:43 -0400 The first election of a Delegate Assembly representative for MS Opera and Musical Performance will be held in the fall of 2017; the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making n…[Read more]

]]> 0 049ba16b1fa129754b35e220877adfd7 Kendra Leonard deposited Shakespeare, Madness, and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations in the group MS Opera and Musical Performance https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/548192/ Thu, 26 May 2016 20:45:18 -0400 Shakespeare’s three political tragedies―Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear―have numerously been presented or adapted on film. These three plays all involve the recurring trope of madness, which, as constructed by Shakespeare, provided a wider canvas on which to detail those materials that could not be otherwise expressed: sexual desire and exp…[Read more]

]]> 0 0bb75d98cff9cd666ebf755859890a3e Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic Performing Dickens -- NEH Summer Seminar in the forum Opera as a Literary and Dramatic Form http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/opera-as-a-literary-and-dramatic-form/forum/topic/performing-dickens-neh-summer-seminar-2/ Tue, 21 Jan 2014 03:22:11 -0500 Applications are now open for “<b>Performing Dickens: <i>Oliver Twist</i> and <i>Great Expectations</i> on Page Stage, and Screen</b>,” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz.  From <b>Monday, July 7, 2014 to F…[Read more]

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