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FREE registration: Please click here to register Following on from Gregory Camp’s L’ORFEO lecture ‘Adventures in Linguistics for Singers’ in June 2026, ‘Linguistics for Singers’ offers a practical workshop to develop participants confidence in applying linguistic principles to their work. This workshop will explore a holistic language-based approach to vocal repertoire, showing how a grounding...
What happens when an opera responds to its audience while it is being performed, and even the singers do not know how it will end? In this seminar Dr Alexandra Huang-Kokina explores this question through Ghost of the AI Empire, an immersive opera trilogy she created, produced and directed. Reimagining the Japanese ghost legend Yotsuya...
My recent textbook Linguistics for Singers takes singers and other musicians who work with them through a wide range of linguistic features. While a great deal of work has been done on lyric diction, fewer resources take into account other concepts like grammar and prosody. A more holistic approach to the languages we sing allows us to...
The meeting discussed the collaboration between the University of Leeds and Vanderbilt University, focusing on practical steps to build upon partnerships in higher education and opera. Key points included the importance of long-term, equitable partnerships, the need for new opera commissions, and the challenges of reinterpreting problematic operas like "Madamme Butterfly." The conversation also highlighted...
Amidst the growing trend of documentary operas, the moniker “CNN opera” has returned to common parlance. A reference to the first television channel to provide twenty-four-hour news coverage, the term is often used in both critical reviews and scholarship to gesture towards works that draw on topical news stories as subject material. Since the 1990s,...
Join us for an interview with Christine Jane Chibnall as she reflects on decades of experience in programming, casting, education, and cross-artform collaboration both in opera and beyond. Over the course of her career, Christine has been at the forefront of artistic innovation, including landmark projects at Opera North such as West Side Story (1988),...
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