Description

On this episode I'm talking with Dr. Nick Stevens about the intersections of opera and society in various historical moments—up to and including the present day. Nick is a musicologist (ecommerce production associate) for ArkivMusic, who has also taught most recently as the Visiting Assistant Professor in Musicology at the Wichita State University School of Music. His monograph, Crisis Mode: Opera as Form and Medium After the End of History,is under contract and due out within the next couple of years. On this show we discuss the "undoing of women" in traditional opera genres, the status of contemporary opera and its imbrication with neoliberal crisis, as well as musicological debates, working outside of academia, and more.

References:

Janet Roitman, Anti-Crisis

Catherine Clement, Opera: The Undoing of Women

Wayne Koestenbaum, The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire 

Judith Butler, Gender Trouble

Susan McClary, Feminine Endings

Elizabeth S. Anker, Rita Felski, Critique and Postcritique

Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker, A History of Opera

Clara Hunter Latham, "How Many Voices Can She Have? Destabilizing Desire and Identification Opera Quarterly, Volume 33, Issue 3-4, summer-autumn 2017.

Michael Dango, Crisis Style: The Aesthetics of Repair