Waseda Institute for Research in Opera and Music Theatre (WIROM), Comprehensive Research Organization, Waseda University<\/p>\n
This presentation focuses on an opera titled Taifun (\u201cTyphoon\u201d) (1924), which is based on a drama of the same title that was written by Hungarian playwright Melchior Lengyel (1880\u20131974). The original drama was first performed in 1909, and was followed by numerous productions worldwide. The opera is a tragedy depicting a Japanese bureaucrat who resides in Paris; it was composed by Theodor Sz\u00e1nt\u00f3 (1877\u20131934) and premiered in Mannheim in 1924. Sz\u00e1nt\u00f3 was a Hungarian pianist and composer who studied in Vienna and Budapest and then in Berlin under Busoni. Although his works are rarely played today, he created various compositions influenced by folk songs in Hungary and Japan, and, as a virtuoso pianist, he also transcribed several works by other composers such as Stravinsky and Bach. This paper first overviews the works and activities of Sz\u00e1nt\u00f3 and then analyzes several scenes that include Japanese elements, comparing them to the original drama, and cites critiques from Hungary. In this way, it reveals how the opera was received by the audiences in the context of the history of Hungarian operas and which images of Japan were prevalent in Europe from the turn of the century to the interwar period.<\/p>\n
Next meeting<\/p>\n
Next meeting will be held on November 5th (Sat.) 2022
\nPresenter: ONISHI, Yuki
\nModerator: KASAI, Amane<\/p>\n
Monthly Regular Meeting October 2022 (The 205th Meeting of Opera Research Group) Waseda Institute for Research […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[87,82,73],"class_list":["post-10507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-arts-en","tag-events-en","tag-research-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15801,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10507\/revisions\/15801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}