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DESCRIPTION: While moments of performance have often taken centre stage in 
 scholarship on contemporary musical and theatrical practice\, this talk con
 ceptualises staged music – and new opera in particular – as rehearsal. With
  accounts of entire rehearsal phases\, I shift the focus to the development
  process of world premiere productions in Europe to sound out the wider age
 ntial networks at play. Rehearsal ethnography functions as a method to furt
 her demystify operatic performance\, decanonise scholarly approaches to the
  academic field and diversify access to current practices.    Evolving with
  schedules and studios\, as well as with computational technologies\, biolo
 gical matter and production teams\, new operas undergo a process of ‘becomi
 ng’ from composition to staging which negotiates relationships beyond human
  life. From posthumous opera divas to queer ecologies\, operatic stories na
 rrate the recalibration of congenital bodies and their processes rehearse p
 osthuman existence within anthropocentric operatic structures. I map the so
 nic agencies of new opera at the intersection of opera studies\, critical p
 osthumanism and ethnography. Focusing on the most rehearsal-intense art for
 m within institutionalised structures\, I examine practices that mostly get
  invisibilized.    The talk will tap into two case studies of new opera\, M
 arina Abramović’s  7 Deaths of Maria Callas  (Bayerische Staatsoper\, 2020)
  and Sivan Eldar and Cordelia Lynn’s  Like Flesh  (Opéra de Lille\, 2022). 
 The operatic homage of performance artist Abramović in honour of Maria Call
 as raises questions about difference in operatic repetition\, reconfigures 
 ideas of musical authorship and fosters intermundane collaboration. Looking
  into the recording and rehearsal stages of Sivan Eldar and Cordelia Lynn’s
  eco-themed opera  Like Flesh \, I confront the post-anthropocentric displa
 y of eco-sensitive narratives with material trajectories and antifungal pro
 duction practices. The examined cases function to expand the academic disco
 urse on operatic afterlives by scrutinising new opera as rehearsal\, entang
 led in the probing of protean posthuman ‘becoming’.        Biography    Dr.
  Lea Luka Sikau (she/her) is an Artist-Researcher\, with a Ph.D. on critica
 l posthumanism\, new opera and rehearsal ethnography from the University of
  Cambridge. She lectured on artistic research processes at Humboldt Univers
 ity Berlin and Seoul National University. Sikau has been a Bavarian America
 n Academy Fellow at Harvard University’s Mellon School for Performance and 
 Theater Research and was awarded with the Bavarian Cultural Award for her r
 esearch at MIT’s Center for Art\, Science and Technology. She has worked wi
 th some of the most sought-after visionaries in the arts such as Romeo Cast
 ellucci\, Marina Abramović and Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll). As a media 
 artist and mezzosoprano\, Sikau was commissioned by the European Commission
  (S+T+ARTS)\, ligeti centre Hamburg\, Ars Electronica Festival\, transmedia
 le Berlin\, Impakt Utrecht\, Ensemble Modern and Climate Week NYC. 
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Seminarraum SR III im Institut für Theaterwissenschaft der Freien 
 Universität Berlin\n Grunewaldstraße 35\, 12165 Berlin
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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture by Dr. Lea Luka Sikau – Rehearsing New Opera: Ecologi
 es of Production
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 en/Guest_2024_05_28.html
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