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L’ORFEO to Rethink Operatic Pedagogies
L’ORFEO has recently been awarded a University of Leeds International Strategy Fund grant to develop work on ‘Rethinking Operatic Pedagogies’. The opera industry is fast changing. Increased industry responses around the world to social movements such as #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter, along with funders’ requirements for ‘relevance’ have created a shift in the demands placed...
L’ORFEO announces conference with Blair School of Music, ‘Mapping Community (through) Opera’
As part of L’ORFEO’s ongoing collaboration with the Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University, a conference, ‘Mapping Community (through) Opera’ will take place in Nashville, 11–13 June 2027. The conference will include a free performance of opera excerpts by the Vanderbilt Opera Theatre on 12 June. The conference is being organised by Allison Chu and Jennifer...
L’ORFEO announces research collaboration with Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University
L’ORFEO is pleased to announce a new research collaboration with colleagues from the Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University (USA). L’ORFEO directors Edward Venn and Katie Gardner have been awarded funds from the Leeds - Vanderbilt Pump Priming and Faculty Mobility Programme to work with Allison Chu and Jennifer Q. McGuire at Vanderbilt on a...
Events
Who Shapes the Opera? Immersive Opera, Emotion Engine and the Intelligent Stage
What happens when an opera responds to its audience while it is being performed, and even the singers do not...
Linguistics for Singers
FREE registration: Please click here to register Following on from Gregory Camp’s L’ORFEO lecture ‘Adventures in Linguistics for Singers’ in...
Adventures in Linguistics for Singers
My recent textbook Linguistics for Singers takes singers and other musicians who work with them through a wide range of linguistic features....