World Opera Symposium May 8-10, 2008
Sunday, March 2, 2008 - 15:51
International Symposium/workshop
"The World Opera:
When the Opera stage becomes worldwide:
The creation of a distributed Opera stage"
Tromsø May 8.-10. 2008 organized by The World Opera in cooperation with the University of Tromsø and the University college of Tromsø/The Academy of Music
"The World Opera:
When the Opera stage becomes worldwide:
The creation of a distributed Opera stage"
Tromsø May 8.-10. 2008 organized by The World Opera in cooperation with the University of Tromsø and the University college of Tromsø/The Academy of Music
Preliminary program for The World Opera symposium May 8-10 2008:
Location: Academy of Music, Tromsø
May 8, 2008:
09.00-09.15 Welcome by the Presidents of University of Tromsø and University College in Tromsø
09.00-10.00 Introduction by Niels Windfeld Lund, Tromsø: Internet as a virtual stage for The Arts, notably for Opera: The World Opera vision
10.00-11.00 Opera: staging in-between the arts, disciplines and media
11.00-13.00 Chris Chafe, CCRMA, Center for computer research in music and acoustics, Stanford University
Creating a virtual low latency audio stage - demonstrations
14.00-17.00 composers
Composing for a distributed stage
19.00-21.00 Opera project group discussions
May 9 2008:
9.00 - 10.30 Jeremy Cooperstock, CIRMMT, The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Creating an immersive video space - demonstrations
11.00-13.00
Designing a Worldwide Opera Stage in between Live and online performance
14.00-15.00 Mark Schubin, Engineer in charge, The Metropolitan Opera, New York,
Watching opera on screen - on different scale
15.30-18.30 project group meeting
May 10 2008:
9.30 - 12.00 Plenary work session on The World Opera
group presentations with themes to be discussed
13.00-15.00 Group meetings for planning the coming work
15.00-16.00 Closing plenary sessions