Check-in, Coffee, Conversation
9:30 a.m.
Cultural Arts
Grand Lobby
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Session I
La Bohème Then and Now
10 - 11:15
a.m.
Beckwith
Recital Hall
• Kunio Hara, assistant professor of music
history, University of South Carolina
"Mimì and Her Sisters: Transformation of
the Heroine from Scènes de la vie de bohème to La Bohème"
• J. Daniel Jenkins, assistant professor of
music theory, University of South Carolina
"Rent’s Many Loves"
11:15 - 11:45
a.m
Coffee and
presentations.
Cultural Arts
Grand Lobby
• Mark Sorensen, professor of costume design,
UNCW
and
• Max Lydy, associate professor of tech
direction, sound design, UNCW
Opera Wilmington’s La Bohème, summer
2019: set and costume designs
• Tina Langevin, voice student, UNCW
The roles of Mimì and Musetta from the
premiere to the present day
• Chase Webb, Michael Hermes, Thomas Kimmel,
senior seminar in music students, UNCW
Research posters: "The musical legacies of
Dance Theatre of Harlem"
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Session II
Opera, Ballet, and Civil Rights Activism
11:45 - 1
p.m.
Beckwith
Recital Hall
• Lucy Caplan, Ph.D. candidate in American
Studies and African American Studies, Yale University
The Limits of Desegregation: Black
Activism and the Metropolitan Opera
• Helena Kopchick Spencer, assistant professor
of music history, UNCW
Arthur Mitchell and the Transformation of
the Paris Opéra’s Giselle (1841) into Dance Theatre of Harlem’s Creole Giselle
(1984)
Lunch Break
1 - 2 p.m
Cultural Arts
Grand Lobby
2 - 3 p.m.
Beckwith
Recital Hall
• Theara J. Ward, keynote speaker, program
associate, Dancing Through Barriers; former principal dancer, Dance Theatre of
Harlem
Inside an
American Classic: Dance Theatre of Harlem, a Moving Image of Social Justice
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Co-sponsored by the UNCW Department of Music, Office of the
Arts and the Office of Community Engagement.
Opera Wilmington is the resident opera company of the
University of North Carolina Wilmington.