Programme
Ideologies, cultural struggles, censorship
10:00-12:30
Arne Stollberg (Berlin)
"... if this is supposed to be the music of the future, then there never was any". Alban Berg, the Korngolds and the phantasm of the “International”
Max Erwin (Msida, Malta)
The NSDAP as Artistic Sponsor, Publishing House, and Agent: The Modern Operas of the NS-Kulturgemeinde
Wozzeck reception in authoritarian regimes
Antonina Klokova (Vienna)
First performance of Wozzeck in Leningrad in 1927 and Alban Berg's reception in the Soviet Union: actors and media
Andrea Agresti (Vienna)
"Cultural Resistance" against Fascism or Assertion of Italy's "Intellectual Primacy"? Decision-making processes and the political dimension in the Italian premiere of Wozzeck in 1942
Publishers and their room for maneuver
13:30-15:00
Christopher Hailey (Pennington, NJ)
The publishing policy of Universal Edition in the interwar period
Cornelia Bartsch (Hamburg)
Ethel Smyth, Universal Edition and the "Opera Fiasco". Performance options for operas in the interwar period
Albrecht Dümling (Berlin)
Hindemith, Schott and the prevented premiere of Mathis der Maler
15:30-17:00
Round Table: New opera today - composers, publishers, opera houses in discussion
Daniela Brendel (Berlin), Chaya Czernowin (Cambridge, MA), Merle Fahrholz (Essen), Sergio Morabito (Vienna/Stuttgart), with interview sequences by glanz&krawall (Berlin), moderated by Martin Ebyl (Vienna)