{"id":23290,"date":"2026-05-11T13:57:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/?p=23290"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:20:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:20:51","slug":"%e6%ac%a1%e4%b8%96%e4%bb%a3%e3%82%b8%e3%83%a3%e3%83%bc%e3%83%8a%e3%83%aa%e3%82%ba%e3%83%a0%e3%83%bb%e3%83%a1%e3%83%87%e3%82%a3%e3%82%a2%e7%a0%94%e7%a9%b6%e6%89%80%ef%bc%9anhk%e6%94%be%e9%80%81-7-2-3-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/news-en\/2026\/05\/11\/23290\/","title":{"rendered":"Monthly Regular Meeting, July 2026 (236th Meeting of the Opera Research Group)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Mini-Symposium: \u201cDiscussion of the New Production of Elektra at the New National Theatre Tokyo\u201d<\/h3>\n<h5><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>From June to July this year, Richard Strauss\u2019s Elektra will be performed at the New National Theatre Tokyo for the first time in 20 years, in a new production directed by Johannes Erath. In this mini-symposium, held after the conclusion of all performances, three scholars will exchange views on this new production: Yuko Sekine, a specialist in Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the librettist of Elektra, and author of Be Silent and Dance, Elektra!: Hofmannsthal\u2019s Language Crisis and Japan (Shunpusha, 2019); Miho Morioka, who has analyzed political representation in opera productions in her long-running series in the magazine Chuo Hyoron and in Looking at the World through Opera Houses (Chuo University Press, 2013); and Takayuki Nitta, whose research focuses on aesthetic issues in contemporary opera performance. After individual presentations (20 minutes each, followed by 10 minutes of Q&amp;A), a general discussion with the audience will take place.<\/p>\n<h5>Event Outline<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Time and Date: July 18 (Sat.) 2026, 16:30 \u2013 18:30 (JST)<\/li>\n<li>Format: Hyflex (On-Campus and Online meeting (Zoom))<\/li>\n<li>Presenter: Yuko SEKINE, Miho MORIOKA, Takayuki NITTA<\/li>\n<li>Venue: Waseda University, Nishi-Waseda Campus, Room 503 of Building 52<br \/>\n*No advance registration is required.<\/li>\n<li>Affiliation:\u00a0 Institute of Research in Opera and Music Theatre<\/li>\n<li>Language: Japanese<\/li>\n<li>Organized by:\u00a0 Institute of Research in Opera and Music Theatre (WIROM), Comprehensive Research Organization, Waseda University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Profile of Presenter<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>SEKINE, Yuko<br \/>\n<\/strong>Dr. Yuko Sekine is a part-time lecturer at Waseda University, Meiji University, and other institutions. As a choral conductor, she specializes in Austrian cultural history, Viennese fin-de-si\u00e8cle culture, and the cultural history of music. Recently, her research has focused on the relationship between text and music in Viennese musicals. She is the author of <em>Be Silent and Dance, Elektra!: Hofmannsthal\u2019s Language Crisis and Japan<\/em> (Shunpusha, 2019), and co-author of <em>Musicals of the World and Japanese Musicals<\/em> (Shunpusha, 2017). She edited <em>The Transformation of Elisabeth: On the Nature of Adapted Musicals<\/em> (Japanese Society for German Studies Research Series, no. 155, 2024), contributing the essay &#8220;Vienna Version of \u2018The Dance of Death\u2019 vs Japanese Version of \u2018The Rondo of Love and Death\u2019.&#8221; She also co-translated the three-volume edition of <em>The Memoirs of Brahms<\/em> (Ongaku no Tomo Sha, 2025).<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORIOKA, Miho<br \/>\n<\/strong>Miho Morioka is a professor in the Faculty of Economics at Chuo University. Her research focuses on the analysis of political representation in opera productions by contemporary directors (e.g., Richard Jones, Tobias Kratzer, William Kentridge, Vasily Barkhatov). She is the author of <em>Looking at the World through Opera Houses<\/em> (2013) and the editor of <em>Theatre and Representation: Opera, Drama, Film and Criticism<\/em> (2026\uff09. She has also contributed to <em>Construction of Modern Japan in Gender Discourses<\/em> (2003); <em>Gender History Series, Vol. 4: Visual Representation and Music<\/em> (2010); <em>The Art of Love: An Introduction to Queer Reading<\/em> (2013); <em>Arts Updated: Film, Opera and Literature<\/em> (2014); <em>Queer Reading: The Art of Love II<\/em> (2019); <em>Renovation of the Arts<\/em> (2020); <em>An Invitation to Global Cultural History<\/em> (2023).<\/p>\n<p><strong>NITTA, Takayuki<br \/>\n<\/strong>Takayuki Nitta is an adjunct researcher at the Institute of Research in Opera and Music Theatre at Waseda University, Tokyo. His research began with the methodological problems identified by New Musicology, particularly by Lawrence Kramer, and later expanded to hermeneutic analysis of audiovisual texts with a focus on opera and film. He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on contemporary opera staging. His publications include \u201cPostmodern Orpheus: Stefan Herheim\u2019s Staging of Opera\u201d (<em>Bigaku<\/em> 67:1, 2016), \u201cContemporary Opera Staging, or the Theatre of New Musicology: Rethinking Lawrence Kramer\u2019s Musical Hermeneutics\u201d (<em>Ongakugaku<\/em> 62:2, 2017), and, most recently, \u201cOpera and Counterfactuals: Voice, Storytelling, Performance\u201d (<em>Hyosho<\/em> 17, 2023).<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Registration<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Registration is required by July 17th (Fri.) for online participants. Please complete your registration via the provided URL.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/list-waseda-jp.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/b3KjVbyeSVS_8tY5whx2JA\">https:\/\/list-waseda-jp.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/b3KjVbyeSVS_8tY5whx2JA<\/a><br \/>\n*Please show your full name on the display, mute yourself, and turn off the video, except when talking; refrain from taking screenshots, recordings, etc., and follow the moderator\u2019s instructions.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Contact<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Institute of Research in Opera and Music Theatre (WIROM), Comprehensive Research Organization, Waseda University: <a href=\"https:\/\/prj-opera-mt.w.waseda.jp\/\"><u>https:\/\/prj-opera-mt.w.waseda.jp\/<\/u><\/a><br \/>\ne-mail address: operaken-uketsuke[at]list.waseda.jp\u3000([at] = @)<br \/>\nYou can also find this information on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wasedaopera\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wasedaopera\">X\uff08Twitter)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mini-Symposium: \u201cDiscussion of the New Production of Elektra at the New National Theatre Tokyo\u201d Abstract From  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[183,82,138,76,73],"class_list":["post-23290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-2026-en","tag-events-en","tag-news","tag-outreach-en","tag-research-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23290","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=23290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23354,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23290\/revisions\/23354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/cro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}