WoVen - Women - Opera - Public Stage - Eighteenth-Century Venice
Women, Opera and the Public Stage in Eighteenth-Century Venice (WoVen)
What was the place of women in eighteenth-century European operatic culture? What was their role in constructing models for women in the eighteenth century? Did opera, and the opportunities for autonomy and social mobility, advance the process of women’s emancipation?
The interdisciplinary project ‘Women, Opera and the Public Stage in Eighteenth-Century Venice’ brings together a research team dedicated to answering these and related questions, rethinking the links between women and European operatic culture in the eighteenth century.
More information about the project:
In English: Women on Stage in Eighteenth-Century Venice: A New Research Collaborative (pdf) by M. Bucciarelli and M. Butler. Society for Eighteenth-Century Music. Newsletter vol. 38 (2021)
In Norwegian: Kvinner, opera og den offentlege scena i Venezia på 1700-talet (pdf) by M. Bucciarelli. Musikk & Historie (2021).
News and events
International conference - Women as Agents for the Pan-European Mobility of Italian Opera in the Eighteenth Century - Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani & Università Ca' Foscari (Venice, 19-20 February 2025).
24 January 2025, 17:00-18:00: Valentina Cucinotta (Milan). Le figure femminili nei libretti di Filippo Livigni: drammi giocosi di Galuppi, Paisiello, Cherubini e Cimarosa.
International Conference Rome crossroad of Arts between the 17th and 20th centuries (Rome, 14-16 May 2024)
Personaggi, ruoli e interpreti nello spettacolo musicale, teatrale e cinematografico - Università di Firenze, SAGAS (21 May 2024). Keynote speakers: Melania Bucciarelli (NTNU) and Nicola Badolato (Università di Bologna)
International Conference Women, Opera and the Public Stage in Eighteenth-Century Venice (Trondheim, 11-13 April 2024). Workshop on Baroque ornamentation (9 April) and Opening concert (10 April) with Ann Hallenberg and TSO baroque ensemble!
Conference report by KS. Diestel Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (01.07.2024)
Conference report by L. Astuto Rocha Gomes H-Soz-Kult (03.06.2024)
The Teatro Sant'Angelo at the time of Antonio Vivaldi (Venice, 16-18 November 2023)
Ahead of Their Time? Women and Italian Opera in the Eighteenth Century. ISECS Roma 2023. Bella Brover-Lubovsky, Margaret Butler, Teresa Chirico, Christine Jeanneret. Convenor: Tatiana Korneeva
Staging History for Today's Audiences: Women in Early Opera. Deda Cristina Colonna in conversation with Karina Valnumsen Hansen and Melania Bucciarelli. 7 February 2023, NTNU
2022 Jan Kiepura Prize to Deda Cristina Colonna for her production of Rameau's Castor et Pollux at Warszawska Opera Kameralna (2021)
2022 Vladimir Féderov Award to Margaret Butler for her article 'Opening a Celebrity’s Closet: Cecilia Davies and the de Bellis Collection', in Fontes Artis Musicae 68/4 (2021)
Venice, 23-24 May 2022 - WoVen Colloquium 'Concepts, Sources and Methodologies'
Conference report by B. Kägler and EM. Schreiner, Eighteenth Century Music, 20/1 (2023), 116-119
Tagungsbericht EM. Schreiner, H-Soz-Kult (26.09.2022)
Research Team
- Stefano Aresi Research Fellow (NTNU)
- Margaret Butler (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Deda Cristina Colonna Opera director & Coreographer (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis)
- Alene Mari Holder PhD candidate (NTNU)
- Christine Jeanneret (University of Copenhagen)
- Tatiana Korneeva (Università degli Studi di Udine)
- Britta Kägler (University of Passau)
- Francesca Menchelli-Buttini (Conservatorio di Musica 'G. Rossini', Pesaro)
- Brad Carlton Sisk PhD candidate (NTNU)
- Judit Zsovár Soprano Composer Creative artist & Musicologist
Collaborators
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Silvano Arnoldo Costume, Fashion and Accessories designer
Scientific Advisor
- Reinhard Strohm (University of Oxford)
Research assistants
- Evelina Bruno
- Karina V. Hansen
- Oliver Riordan
- Solveig Rønning
Master studentships
Funding
The project is funded by The Research Council of Norway for the period of 2021-2027.
