Setting the Stage, Staging the Voice: On Directing Weill and Brecht's Der Jasager (The Yes Sayer)

Oct
18
2012

Thursday 18 October
16:00 until 18:00
Attenborough Centre Creativity Zone (Pevensey 3C7)
Speaker: Professor Michal Grover-Friedlander (Tel Aviv Univerisity)

Michal Grover-Friedlander teaches at Tel Aviv University. She has written two books: Vocal Apparition: The Attraction of Cinema to Opera (Princeton University Press) was awarded one of Choice’s outstanding academic
 titles for 2005 and Operatic Afterlives (Zone books, 2011). She has also co-edited an
 interdisciplinary book about the voice and the gaze (Resling, 2002 in Hebrew). She has written numerous articles and received several grants (Yad Hanandiv, Institute for Advanced Studies Princeton, The Israel Science Foundation and the Kurt Weill Foundation). Her most recent book length project is about staging voices in opera and music theater. Since 2005, Grover-Frielander has been directing opera in Italy Germany and Israel and in 2011 she has founded the opera group Ta Opera Zuta.

By: Matthew Knight
Last updated: Tuesday, 18 September 2012