Don Juan Days
AUSTRIAN CULTURAL FORUM NEW YORK
DON JUAN ARCHIVE VIENNA
MOZARTEUM UNIVERSITY SALZBURG
DA PONTE DAY
at the
Austrian Cultural Forum New York
October 6, 2014
POWER AND SEDUCTION
Da Ponte`s Tre Drammi printed in New York 1826:
Figaro, Don Giovanni and Axur
Program
09:00–09:20 Opening
Christine Moser, Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York
H. E. Weidinger, President of Don Juan Archive Vienna, STVDIVM FÆSVLANVM and Hollitzer Verlag
Barbara Faedda, Vice-Director of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University
Stefan David Hummel, Assistant of the Chancellor of the Mozarteum University Salzburg - Head of Organization Mozart Competition
09:20–10:30 Session I "Da Ponte`s Beaumarchais-libretti"
Chair: Reinhard Eisendle
Ian Woodfield, Queens University, Belfast
The revival of Le nozze di Figaro: Da Ponte`s influence on Mozart`s career
John Rice, Rochester, Minnesota
Da Ponte, Salieri, and Axur re d’Ormus
10:50–12:30 Session II "Don Giovanni I"
Chair: John Rice
H. E. Weidinger, Don Juan Archive Vienna
Was Da Ponte right, when in Tre Drammi he declared his Don Giovanni composed "da lui per le Nozze del Principe Antonio di | Sassonia––Colla Principessa M. Teresa Figlia | dell`Impr. Leopoldo"? And if so, what new light would it shed on the genesis of Da Ponte`s and Mozart`s opera?
Reinhard Eisendle, Don Juan Archive Vienna
From Il dissoluto punito. O sia il D. Giovanni to Il Don Giovanni. A comparison of the poet`s versions created for Prague (1787), Vienna (1788) and New York (1826)
Matthew Head, Kings College, London
August Apel`s On the musical treatment of ghosts (1800) – A theory of supernatural horror for Mozart and Da Ponte?
13:30–15:10 Session III "Don Giovanni II"
Chair: H. E. Weidinger
Martin Nedbal, University of Arkansas
Between farce and melodrama: Da Ponte and Mozart`s Don Giovanni in early nineteenth-century Vienna and New York
Wolfgang Brunner, Mozarteum University Salzburg
Salon as opera: variations and paraphrases on themes of Mozart`s Don Giovanni
Ted Emery, The Ohio State University
Doppelgänger: Da Ponte`s Casanova
15:30–16:40 Session IV "Da Ponte in America"
Chair: Martin Nedbal
Barbara Faedda, Columbia University
Foreigners, immigrants, and travelers in America in Da Ponte`s time
Edmund White, Columbia University
Lorenzo Da Ponte: the baffled courtier
19:30
A Concert at the Austrian Cultural Forum
in occasion of the "Da Ponte Day" in New York
Teresa Tièschky (soprano) Mozarteum University Salzburg
Matthias Winckhler (baritone) Mozarteum University Salzburg
Wolfgang Brunner (piano) Mozarteum University Salzburg
Arias and Duets by Mozart
from Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte
Piano Variations and Paraphrases
on themes of Figaro and Don Giovanni. By Johann Baptist Cramer,
Franz Xaver Mozart, Camille Pleyel and Joseph Woelfl
Venue
Austrian Cultural Forum, 11 East 52nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10022
Concept
Reinhard Eisendle and H. E. Weidinger
Organisation
Reinhard Eisendle and Michael Roth, Wolfgang Brunner and Stefan David Hummel
Contact
Don Juan Archive Vienna, Trautsongasse 6, A-1080 Wien
Tel.: +43-1-236 56 05, Fax: +43-1-236 56 05/25
e-Mail:office@donjuanchiv.at
The participation at the "Da Ponte Day" is free.
The registration at the website of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York (www.acfny.org) starts on September 16, 2014.
Im November-Newsletter der Universität Mozarteum Salzburg findet sich ein Bericht zum Da Ponte Day.