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SUMMARY:An Evening with the Art Historians - Cinthia Willaman &amp\; Tamsi
 n Alexander (University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20111201T173000Z
DTEND:20111201T190000Z
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CONTACT:Rosemari Baker
DESCRIPTION:* A Russian Welcome in Paris: Sonia and Robert Delaunay’s Ar
 tistic Exchange with Russian Artists in the International Avant-Garde\, 19
 09-1914\n\nAbstract TBC\n\n* Italianising Russian Opera: Glinka’s 'A Lif
 e for the Tsar' at Covent Garden (1887)\n\nGlinka’s 'A Life for the Tsar
 '\, widely proclaimed at the time to be the figurehead of Russian national
  opera\, may seem a strange choice to conclude a season celebrating Queen 
 Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. Yet\, with the opera sung in Italian\, given 
 by internationally renowned singers\, granted spectacular new scenery\, an
 d attended by royalty\, the opera projected a nostalgia for the Italian op
 era seasons of the 1840s and 50s - the decades in which Queen Victoria had
  most frequented the opera. This paper explores how the British premiere o
 f 'A Life for the Tsar' was sold to the public and made suitable for such 
 an occasion at a time when Anglo-Russian relations were at a low\, when li
 ttle was known in Britain of Russian opera\, and when the desire for an En
 glish national opera tradition was growing in urgency.
LOCATION:MML Graduate Suite\, Raised Faculty Building\, Sidgwick Avenue
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