Guest Speaker
Dr. Ryan Minor
Associate Professor; Music History and Theory,
Stony Brook University
Location: Humanities 2441
This talk is an attempt to think through the surprisingly sincere chorales that end Die Dreigroschenoper and Der Kaiser von Atlantis--chorales that encapsulate these operas' curious blend of irony and earnestness precisely at the moment that they make their most daring bid to breech, as well as resurrect, opera's fourth wall. I also explore the ramifications of this ambivalent if highly-charged ethics of performance by discussing Barry Kosky's recent production of Paul Abraham's Ball im Savoy (1932), in which breeching the fourth wall amounts to no less than an acknowledgement of the Holocaust.
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