"Ethical Challenges for Opera Performance Today" with Naomi André
"Ethical Challenges for Opera Performance Today" with Naomi André
ABOUT THE EVENT
What does it mean to perform operas from the past that feature characters and tropes that portray problematic, exoticist and negative racial stereotypes? This workshop with musicologist Naomi André considers such ethical dilemmas in the world of opera today, and how practitioners might navigate them. Moderated by School of Music musicology professor William Robin.
ABOUT NAOMI ANDRÉ
Naomi André is the David G. Frey Distinguished Professor in the Department of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Professor Emerita at the University of Michigan. Her publications include the books Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement and Voicing Gender: Castrati, Travesti, and the Second Woman in Early Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera and co-edited collections Blackness in Opera; African Performance Arts and Political Acts; and The Music of Mzilikazi Khumalo: Language, Culture, and Song in South Africa. She has worked with opera companies, symphonies, and is a founding member of the Black Opera Research Network (BORN).