AHRC Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts
Opera director and multi-media artist Tim Hopkins started his five-year tenure as AHRC Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts with CROMT in June 2007. Tim is working on a range of projects that combine music and other media to create new forms of lyric theatre.
Sussex Bach Wedding
Proposal for a collaborative project between the Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre at the University of Sussex & The Hanover Band.
DMCE Project
The DMCE (Dramaturgie Musicale Contemporaine en Europe) is an EU initiative being co-ordinated by the University of Paris 8 to establish a comprehensive on-line database for works of music-based theatre produced in Europe during the 20th and 21st centuries. CROMT is acting as UK co-ordinator for the project. CROMT also participated in the series of four annual symposia on contemporary music theatre in Europe organised by DMCE in Paris between 2005-9. The contents of each of the symposia have been published in four separate book - see DMCE website for more information.
The Voice in Modernity
A three-year research project which aims to understand the social and cultural meanings of the human voice in modernity, with particular reference to the implications of such understanding for the use of the voice in contemporary arts, especially opera, music theatre and other forms of performance and digital arts foregrounding voice. The project is currently seeking funding. (See the Voice in Modernity page for more information).
The Kreutzer Sonata
A performative investigation of Tolstoy's story "The Kreutzer Sonata". The project is currently seeking funding.