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This is an archive of past events within the Department of English Studies. Please see our current events for forthcoming activities.
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Venice and Opera
As Charles Dickens's description reminds us, Venice has always allured the cultural imagination. Rising out of the sea, to which its symbolic marriage was signalled by the Doge's annual casting of a ring into the lagoon, it is like no other human settlement in its physical make-up. Even now funeral corteges and furniture removals travel down canals rather than roads; as visitors step in and out of vaporetti, they seem to be moving in and out of pictorial spaces. The city brings dwelling, history, aesthetics, and commerce into intimate connection with water.
This lecture series focuses on the city's representation in painting, music and literature since 1800.
Jeremy Dibble is a Professor of Music at Durham University with research specialisms in British and Irish music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including composer studies, musical criticism and aesthetics, hymnology, instrumental music, and opera. His publications include C. Hubert H. Parry: His Life and Music (revised 1998) and Charles Villiers Stanford: Man and Musician (2002).
Contact s.e.wootton@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
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Next Event
- 20th January 2021
- Sensory Experiments in Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Online (Zoom)
- Dr Erica Fretwell (University of Albany) and Dr Shannon Draucker (Siena College)