The triple bill, Bluebeard's castle, will be staged by Tobias Kratzer and conducted by Edward Gardner, with the premiere on 20th January. This seminar on Friday 19th January will engage with these three fascinating works and Kratzer’s interpretation of them as a story of toxic masculinities, women’s emancipation, inherited ambivalences, and complex desires embedded in relationships.
Following an introduction to the three pieces, we will take a closer look at feminist readings of the myth of the Bluebeard, setting this specific production in a broader context, before zooming in on what will be presented at the stage of the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet and how this relates to previous reiterations as well as our contemporary context.
The panel features the following speakers:
- Mary-Ann Smart, Professor of Music, University of California, Berkeley.
- David Levin, Professor in the Departments of Germanic Studies and Cinema and Media Studies, and Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Chicago.
- Erling Guldbrandsen, professor i musikkvitenskap, Universitetet i Oslo.
- Jorunn Økland, professor i teologi og kjønnsstudier, Universitetet i Oslo.
- Tone Brekke, førstelektor i litteratur og kjønnsstudier, Universitetet i Oslo.
- Sadie Menicanin, postdoktor i musikkvitenskap, Universitetet i Oslo.
- Auksė Beatričė Katarskytė, doktorgradsstipendiat i kjønnsstudier, Universitetet i Oslo.
Convened by Dr. Hedda Høgåsen-Hallesby (Dramaturg / Head of dramaturgy and outreach), Peter Edwards (assoc. prof. Dept. of Musicology), and Zafer Özgen (Head of Dept. of Musicology).
Free and open for all.