The Opera Exchange: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Opera

Attend in-depth symposia on featured COC operas led by an astonishing array of academic specialists and followed by panel discussions by members of the COC’s creative teams.

The Opera Exchange is presented in partnership with the Munk Centre for International Studies and the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto.

Events take place at Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building, Faculty of Music, 80 Queen’s Park (at Museum subway station).  Please note that doors open 10 minutes prior to the start of the event and food and drink are not permitted in the auditorium.

Shakespeare's Othello and Verdi's Otello: Staging Jealousy

A symposium on Verdi's Otello
Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

9:30     Alexander Leggatt, Department of English, University of Toronto, Love and Faith
           in Othello and Verdi's Otello

10:00    Jill Levenson, Department of English, University of Toronto, Society of Women in
            Shakespeare's Othello and Verdi's Otello

10:30    Lisa Ramshaw, Forensic Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Pathological Jealousy
            in Ot(h)ello

11:00    Coffee Break

11:30    Roger Parker, Department of Music, King's College, London, Otello: Verdi's
            Official Farewell to Italian Opera

12:30    Lunch Break

2:00     Directional Interpretations: A Video Comparison of Act 1 Love Duet

2:45     Panel with the COC creative team

Staging Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer for Our Times

A symposium on Wagner's The Flying Dutchman
   Saturday, May 1, 2010, 9:30 to 4 p.m.

9:30     Grace Kehler, English Department, McMaster University, Senta and Other
           Wagnerian Heroines

10:00    Stephen McClatchie, Department of Music and VP Research, Mount Alison
            University, The Wandering Jew and Anti-Semitism in the Dutchmans

11:00    Coffee Break

11:30    Clemens Risi, Free University, Berlin, Directorial and Interpretive Approaches to
            Der fliegende Holländer

12:30    Lunch Break

2:00     COC understudies present excerpts from the opera

2:45     Panel with the COC creative team

How to Order

Tickets are $25 per event (Tickets for students, $10, and U of T Faculty, $35, available at the door). Call COC ticket services at 416-363-8231 or order online for Shakespeare's Othello and Verdi's Otello or Staging Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer for Our Times.