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Tuesday, 17 February | Cressida Ryan (University of Nottingham)
4.30pm, Endsleigh Room, Music Department
‘Sacchini's Oedipe à Colone and its Sophoclean context’
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Friday, 20 February | Nicholas Sackman (University of Nottingham)
5.30pm, Djanogly Recital Hall, Music Department
‘Kurt Weill – Composer for the Modern World’ (lecture-recital)
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Wednesday, 28 April | Colin Matthews (University of Nottingham)
in conversation with Mervyn Cooke
4.30pm, Endsleigh Room, Music Department
‘Working with Britten’
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Tuesday, 21 October | Nicholas Baragwanath (Royal Northern College of Music)
4.30pm, Endsleigh Room, Music Department
'Puccini and the Italian Traditions'
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Tuesday, 4 November | Jacob Smith (University of Nottingham)
4.30pm, Endsleigh Room, Music Department
'A Town Called Riddle: Excavating Todd Haynes' I'm Not There '
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Tuesday, 11 November | David Metzer (University of British Columbia)
4.30pm, Endsleigh Room, Music Department
'Sound and Expression in Helmut Lachenmann's The Little Match Stick Girl '
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Friday 27 February | Research Symposium
9.30-5.30pm, Endsleigh Room, Music Department
'Music and the Moving Image'
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Saturday, 28 February | Brush up your Shakespeare
7.30pm, Djanogly Recital Hall, Music Department
A staged programme of song settings of Shakespeare by Warlock, Tippett, Foss, Maconchy, Quilter, Finzi and Dring, from Love’s Labours Lost , The Tempest , Hamlet , Cymbeline , As You Like It and Twelfth Night .
Performed by University of Nottingham students under the direction of Dr Jean Andrews: Hannah Dobra, Jennifer Lambert, Abbey Whittle, Kathryn Smith (event organiser), Elizabeth Rogers, Kathryn Greenlee, Rebecca Dobra, Sami Moosajee, Charlotte Watson, James Giddings. With piano accompaniment by Robert Challinor and Daniel Graham (also rehearsal répétiteur).
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Saturday, 8 November | A Night Club at the Opera
7.30pm, Djanogly Recital Hall
A programme of scenes from operas by Monteverdi ( L'incoronazione di Poppea ), Purcell ( The Fairy Queen ) and Mozart ( Die Zauberflöte , Don Giovanni , Così fan tutte , Le nozze di Figaro ), performed by University of Nottingham students under the direction of Dr Jean Andrews.
Heather Caddick (also co-artistic director), Elizabeth Charlesworth, Alex Patterson, Lucie McHardie-Jones, Elizabeth Rogers, Anna Curzon, René Bloice-Sanders, Kathryn Smith, Kathryn Greenlee, Hannah Dobra, Patrick Heery, Tamara Dollin, Philip Rashleigh. Wiith Robert Challinor (piano), Daniel Graham (répétiteur), Jonathan Pether (cello). View images of the event.
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Saturday, 15 November
Inside Opera
11-1.30pm: Gershwin: Of Thee I Sing
2.30-5pm: Puccini: Tosca
Opera North and Nottingham University come together for a day behind the scenes at the opera.
Focusing on two of Opera North's current productions, Of Thee I Sing and Tosca , these events will take an in-depth look at the works and offer new perspectives on their cultures and contemporary contexts. Participants will include Prof Mervyn Cooke (University of Nottingham) and Dr Susan Rutherford (University of Manchester), and members of Opera North.