Conference on early opera in Copenhagen

Caccini's Euridice and the Birth of Opera

- an international conference on early baroque opera

The Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen

October 17 - 19 2008.

The conference was organized by Nordic Network for Early Opera in collaboration with Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival and The Royal Danish Academy of Music.

The event opened with a masterclass concert with excerpts from Caccini's Euridice, led and introduced by Marco Horvat and Deda Cristina Colonna.

Speakers:

• Barbara Hanning - Professor, The City Collage, New York

• Magnus Tessing Schneider - Ph.D., Theatre science, Aarhus University 

• Jette Barnholdt Hansen - Cand. Mag, Ass. Prof. in Rethorics, Copenhagen University

• Per-Erik Öhrn - opera director, writer, former artistic director of Drottningholms Slottsteater, Stockholm

• Marco Horvat - singer, instrumentalist, director, Paris/Rome

• Deda Cristina Colonna - director, choreographer, Novara, Italy

• John La Bouchardiére - opera director, London

• Chris Cowell - opera director, translator, London