CROWNS, COACHES, CURTAINS: OPERA AND DYNASTIC REPRESENTATION IN 19TH-CENTURY HABSBURG EUROPE

Ort: Alter Senatssaal (Ritterstraße 26) & Villa Tillmanns (Wächterstraße 30)
Referent:innen: Barbara Babić, Dietmar Friesenegger, Austin Glatthorn, Monika Jägerová, Axel Körner, Katharina Lovecky, Damien Mahiet, Riccardo Mandelli, Livio Marcaletti, Martin Nebdal, Alessandra Palidda, Anna Sanda, Claudio Vellutini

From 19 to 21 September 2024 the ERC-project "Opera and the Politics of Empire in Habsburg Europe" holds an international and interdisciplinary conference at Leipzig University to investigate the societal role and political function of opera in the dynastic representation of the Habsburg monarchy.

The conference will cover the final years of the Holy Roman Empire through to the concluding decades of the nineteenth century. During those years, coronations, weddings, diplomatic events and travel of the imperial family offered plenty of opportunities to use music and opera to renegotiate the relationship between the imperial center, crownlands and nationalities, and to put the monarchy on an international stage. Opera scholars, historians and art historians will present new research and relate their work to recent historiographical debates on Habsburg Europe. The conference will be opened with a keynote by Alessandra Palidda (Manchester) on Opera and Public Festivities in Napoleonic Milan.

Programm:

Auch hier einsehbar: https://www.gkr.uni-leipzig.de/fileadmin/Fakultät_GKR/Historisches_Seminar/Neuere_Kultur-_und_Ideengeschichte/CCC_program_final_Update.pdf