Graduate Student, Performance and Cultural Industries
Thesis Title: Opera and Adaptation
Rachel Cowgill
Kara McKechnie
Richard Farnes
(Bryan White)
About
I study 'Opera and Adaptation' within the School of Performance and Cultural Industries, the School of Music (both within the University of Leeds) and with Opera North, and hold an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award. This project also links to a larger collaborative partnership between the University and Opera North, DARE, launched in March 2007 (dareyou.org.uk).
My project focuses on ‘Adaptation, source and musical / compositional realisation’ and is supervised by Dr Rachel Cowgill (Music), Dr Kara McKechnie (PCI), and Richard Farnes, Director of Music at Opera North. I ask questions about the collaborative art and business of opera and the role of the composer, and use case studies to look at how Opera North mediates works and messages to its audience within a social, economic and political context.
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