Session Details

Saturday, 30 December

739. Opera in the Age of Enlightenment

1:45–3:00 p.m., Tubman, Loews

Program arranged by the Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations

Presiding: Paul-André Bempéchat, Harvard Univ.

1. “Reconsidering Rousseau’s Le devin du village: An Opera of Startling Paradox,” Edward Green, Manhattan School of Music

2. “Gender and Stereotype in Così fan tutte,” Paul-André Bempéchat

3. “‘Ein Weib tut wenig, plaudert viel’: Sexism and Racism in The Magic Flute,” Peter Laki, Oberlin Coll.

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