Opera mediatrix
Advanced Music Theatre and collective identity building in Switzerland since 1945
Factsheet
- Lead school Bern Academy of the Arts
- Institute(s) Institute Interpretation
- Research unit(s) Intersection of Contemporary Music
- Funding organisation SNSF
- Duration (planned) 01.02.2020 - 31.01.2024
- Project management Dr. Andreas Leopold Dick
- Head of project Dr. Andreas Leopold Dick
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Project staff
Noémie Anaïs Virginie Favennec
Katelyn Rose King
Course of action
This project engages with the significance of advanced music theatre for the (de )construction of identity-creating myths of community in Switzerland since 1945. With reference to the emergence of collective identities (‘we-ness’), we shall use different methods to investigate pioneering productions on the Swiss music theatre scene. We shall debate the means used to create different kinds of common consciousness, a) that are inherent in the symbolism employed in works and productions, and b) that emerge during rehearsals and in performance.