Sound, Bodies, Visuality: From Baroque Opera to Contemporary Performance

Our Fellows’ seminars are now open to the public! Fascinating topics from the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences

The March 4 seminar has moderators Giuseppe Gerbino (Professor of Music, Department of Music, Columbia University) and George Lewis (Edwin H. Case Professor of Music, Department of Music) in conversation with three Fellows newly arrived at the Italian Academy.

The Fellows and their talks are:

Barbara Nestola

Versailles Centre for Baroque Music (CMBV; France)

The Eloquent Body: Visual Dramaturgy in Early Italian Opera

Piersandra Di Matteo

IUAV University of Venice (Italy) Rethinking Listening Through Deaf Knowledge

Mauro Calcagno

University of Pennsylvania (USA)

The Comet/Poppea: Merging Opera’s Past and Present (Venice 1643/Los Angeles 2024)

Doors open at 1:30pm. Registration does not guarantee a seat; registrants are seated first-come, first served.

This event is in-person only.

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