3 Operas by Robert Carson
- Submitting institution
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The University of East Anglia
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 186137477
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- New Opera In Scotland Events
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2018
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- NOISE (New Opera in Scotland Events) aims to develop new types of opera that seek to overcome the cultural elitism and metropolitan exclusivity associated with the form through collaborative practices that engage local communities and their ‘folk’ and popular cultures. The questions these experiments in operatic form address are: how might opera be brought into conversation with local communities far removed from the metropolitan orientation and elitism traditionally associated with the form? What new kinds of operatic practice are required in order to achieve this? What kinds of collaboration might be required, and with whom? How might such practice generate works that speak in new ways to matters of social, political, cultural and economic issues facing such communities? Can it thereby generate new audiences for opera among communities that might otherwise not find it accessible or relevant to them? Can these practices make opera more inclusive, cheaper and sustainable? The formation of each unique piece involves a process of community-led research. The director, composer and librettist, working closely with members of the community, develop the constituent parts of the opera: story, characters, setting, text and, depending on the specific project, aspects of the musical language. As Artistic Director of NOISE, I am the creative producer, dramaturg and stage director, and it is my artistic vision that shapes the entire collaborative process from conception to completion. I initiate the artistic collaborations involved in producing these works, working with a librettist and composer in order to develop the libretto and the musical language, which combines standard orchestral techniques and operatic voice with other forms of music appropriate to the communities of each work. I also select the locations and venues, which are fundamental to the ways in which each work develops and achieves its aims, and I direct the performance.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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