Musical Theater and Identity in Eighteenth-Century Spain and America

Friday, October 27

9:30 A.M.

10:00 A.M.

Welcoming Remarks
Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Comic Music Drama I
Chair: Susana Hernández Aracio, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Álvaro Torrente, Universidad Complutense de Madrid/Royal Holloway, University of London
Italian Intermezzi in the Spanish Court under Farinelli

Raymond Knapp, UCLA
Cervantes, Voltaire, and the Reflexive Idealism of the American Musical

José-Máximo Leza, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
Elusive Identities: Italian Comic Opera meets ‘Zarzuela’ in Eighteenth-Century Madrid

12:30 P.M.

2:00 P.M.

Serious Music Drama
Chair: Louise Stein, University of Michigan

Craig Russell, California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo
Sumaya’s “Partenope” (1711): Mexican Theatricality and European Inspiration

Bernardo Illari, University of North Texas
Cuzco’s New Glory: Opera and the Criollo Identities in Colonial Peru

William John Summers, Dartmouth College
Role Playing or Playing the Role in Historic Manila: Spanish and “Filipino” Dramatic Events in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

4:30 P.M.

Saturday, October 28

9:30 A.M

10:00 A.M.

Comic Music Drama II
Chair: Elisabeth Le Guin, UCLA

John Koegel, California State University, Fullerton
Musical Theater in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

Germán Labrador López de Azcona, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Musical Hybridization and Musical Identity in Eighteenth-Century Comic Theater

Margaret Cayward, University of California, Davis
The Spanish Tonadilla and Musical Life in Mission-Era California

12:30 P.M.

2:00 P.M.

Audience Workshop and Performance

Blas de Laserna (1751-1816)
Tonadilla a solo, “Las músicas,” 1779?

Director: Elisabeth Le Guin, UCLA
Soprano: Pamela Murray

3:15 P.M.

Roundtable Discussion
Moderator: Elisabeth Le Guin, UCLA