{"id":10899,"date":"2022-10-14T11:06:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T02:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/?p=10899"},"modified":"2022-10-14T11:06:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T02:06:43","slug":"report-of-monthly-regular-meeting-october-2022-the-205th-meeting-of-opera-research-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/news-en\/2022\/10\/14\/10899\/","title":{"rendered":"Report of Monthly Regular Meeting October 2022 (The 205th Meeting of Opera Research Group)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Report of Monthly Regular Meeting October 2022 (The 205th Meeting of Opera Research Group)<\/h3>\n<p>Waseda Institute for Research in Opera and Music Theatre (WIROM), Comprehensive Research Organization, Waseda University<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\">\n<li>Time and Date: October 1st (Sat.) 2022, 16:30-18:00 (JST)<\/li>\n<li>Format: Online meeting (Zoom)<\/li>\n<li>Presenter: OKAMOTO, Yoshiko<\/li>\n<li>Affiliation, Position: Kobe University, Lecturer<\/li>\n<li>Title: \u201cJapanese Scenes in the Opera<em> Taifun<\/em> Composed by Theodor Sz\u00e1nt\u00f3\u201d <\/li>\n<li>Language: Japanese<\/li>\n<li>Abstract:<br \/>\nThis presentation focuses on an opera titled <em>Taifun<\/em> (\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. <\/li>\n<li>Profile of Presenter:<br \/>\nYoshiko OKAMOTO is a lecturer in the Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University, Japan. She received her M.A. in 2010 and Ph.D. in 2014 from the University of Tokyo, and her doctoral thesis is on Bart\u00f3k\u2019s Duke <em>Bluebeard\u2019s Castle. <\/em>Her main interest is in Bart\u00f3k\u2019s stage works and their relationship to literature. She recently published \u201cImages of the Friendship with Bart\u00f3k: From B\u00e9la Bal\u00e1zs\u2019s Recollections\u201d in <em>Hungarian Studies <\/em>28(2) 211\u2013234 and \u201cB\u00e9la Bart\u00f3k\u2019s Controversy with G\u00e9za Moln\u00e1r in 1911: As a Member of the \u2018Transitional Generation\u2019\u201d in<em> Studia Musicologica <\/em>58(2) 129\u2013146. <\/li>\n<li>Moderator: NAKAMURA, Ryo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n* Comment: There were 26 participants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report of Monthly Regular Meeting October 2022 (The 205th Meeting of Opera Research Group) Waseda Institute fo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[82,73],"class_list":["post-10899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-events-en","tag-research-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10899","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=10899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10906,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10899\/revisions\/10906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}