Monthly Regular Meeting November 2023 (The 214th Meeting of Opera Research Group)
Waseda Institute for Research in Opera and Music Theatre (WIROM), Comprehensive Research Organization,Waseda University
- Time and Date: November 11th (Sat.) 2023, 16:30 – 18:00 (JST)
- Format: Online meeting (Zoom)
-Registration is required by November 10th (Fri.).Please register through following URL: (Currently closed.) - Presenter: TACHI, Arisa
- Affiliation: Tokyo University of the Arts
- Title: “Allegories in Carmina Burana (1975), directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle”
- Language: Japanese
- Abstract: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle is one of the most significant directors in the performance history of opera. His achievements as a director are not only stage performances but also movies of opera and other vocal works, in which Carmina Burana (1975) can be said to be an especially creative work. However, there have been few chances for the work to be considered in depth because it steps somewhat beyond performances of opera, whose study focused on direction has only a short history. In this presentation, I will analyze and consider Ponnelle’s direction of Carmina Burana, mainly from the viewpoint of its allegorical aspects. This movie depicts not only “the struggles between good and evil, men and women, fantasy and reality” [Reynolds:1995], but the music and the texts are given profound meanings in various ways, for example, by the insertion of pictorial works. These methods show Ponnelle’s deep insights into the work and the relation with contemporary opera direction. Evaluating this movie in the context of the performance history of opera, we can consider Ponnelle’s direction from both aspects: his unique perspective and the trends of contemporary opera direction.
- Profile of Presenter: Arisa Tachi graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Musicology. At graduate school, she studied the history of Western music, focusing mainly on performing opera, and was awarded a PhD in musicology. In 2018, she joined The IAJS Thematic Conference 2018 and Human Voice / Animal Voice in Tel Aviv University as a panelist. She is now an Adjunct Instructor at Tokyo University of the Arts, Hirosaki University, and Tokoha University. In addition to her activities as a musicologist, she also has a career as a stage director, having performed many operas, plays, reading dramas, and musicals. Recently she started work as a playwright. https://arisa-tachi-411.jimdofree.com/
- Moderator: SATO, Suguru
Next meeting
- Next meeting: December 2nd (Sat.) 2023
Presenter: ISHII, Michiko
Moderator: MORIMOTO, Yoriko
- Waseda Institute for Research in Opera and Music Theatre (WIROM), Comprehensive Research Organization, Waseda University
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