DON JUAN DAYS
I.
“Viva la libertà”
The Dissoluto punito’s Genesis and First Stagings (1787-1788)
Topics to be discussed may include but need not to be limited to the following:
Contract from or Commission for Prague ?
“PER L’ARRIVO DI S[UA]. A[LTEZZA]. SER[ENISSIMA].”
From Words to Music : Dramaturgic Approach(es) of Poet and Composer
Censorship : Influence on Libretto and Score
The 1787 Prague Premiere Staging
The 1788 Vienna Versions : New Musical Sources
The Leipzig Sources : New Repertory Evidence
The Casanova Question
We are especially pleased to welcome
Felicity Baker (London), Johanna Borek (Vienna), Reinhard Eisendle (Vienna), Edmund Goehring (London, CDN), Magnus Tessing Schneider (Copenhagen), Nicole Streitler (Vienna), Philipp Ther (Vienna), Tomislav Volek (Prague), H. E. Weidinger (Vienna/Florence) and Ian Woodfield (Belfast).
Dates:
Friday November 5th – Saturday November 6th, 2010
Café-Restaurant Lusthaus
Freudenau 254, A-1020 Wien
5th November 2010, 10.00-18.00
Restaurant Fromme Helene
Josefstädter Strasse 15, A-1080 Wien
6th November 2010, 10.30-18.00
VIENNA
5th November 2010
10.00-10.45 Don Juan on the European Stage before 1787
Hans Ernst Weidinger
The Don Juan Tradition: An Overview
11.00-12.15 Approach in Vienna: Catholic Feast and Imperial Poet
Edmund Goehring
The All Souls' Day Play in Vienna: Don Juan in Purgatory
Magnus Tessing Schneider
Don Giovanni as a Critical Re-Writing of Il convitato di pietra
12.30-14.00 Studying and Interpreting Don Giovanni
Tomislav Volek
Problems with some unobserved and misinterpreted facts
Magnus Tessing Schneider
Don Giovanni in the Long Dark Shade of the 19th Century
[Lunch break]
15.00-16.45 Contact from or Commission for Prague?
Philipp Ther
The Premiere in politcal context
Hans Ernst Weidinger
"PER L'ARRIVO DI S[ua]. A[ltezza]. SER[enissima].": Failed First Night
Reinhard Eisendle
Censorship. Influence on Libretto and Score
17.00-18.30 The 1787 Prague Premiere Premises
Hans Ernst Weidinger
The Perfect Drama, or: From Words to Music. Dramaturgic Approach(es) of Poet and Composer
Magnus Tessing Schneider
The Original Production of Don Giovanni. Interdisciplinary Approaches and the Use of Anecdotal Sources
VIENNA
6th November 2010
10.30-12.00 The 1788 Versions: Vienna and Leipzig
Ian Woodfield
The 1788 Vienna Versions. A Work in Progress
Ian Woodfield
The Leipzig Sources. New Repertory Evidence for the Prague Opera Company
12.15-13.45 "Poeta di drammi", or: Can There Be Any Meaning In A Libretto?
Felicity Baker
The Enlightenment Critique Implicit in the Libretto's Representation of Love
Magnus Tessing Schneider
The Genre Question Revisited: On Pity, Terror and Laughter
14.45-16.00 Secondary Sources: Memories, Critics, Anecdotes
Ian Woodfield, Magnus Tessing Schneider, Hans Ernst Weidinger
The Casanova Question
Edmund Goehring
Unknown Don Juan Reviews from the Turn of the 18th to 19th Century
16.15-17.15 Interpretations / Additions / Quotations / Allusions
Johanna Borek
One Who Does Not Figure on the Catalogue. Some Remarks on Joseph Losey's Don Giovanni Screen Adaption (1979)
Nicole Streitler
Da Ponte Revisited. Ödön von Horváth's Don Juan kommt aus dem Krieg (1936)
17.30-18.30 Afterglow and Dawn: Rising Aspects of Research
Edmund Goehring
On Scope and Usefulness of a Translation Project
Hans Ernst Weidinger
Continuative Considerations
The official language of the workshops is English.
Registration before the first section’s beginning.
For updated program, submission of proposals and further information please contact:
Don Juan Archiv Wien, Goethegasse 1, A-1010 Vienna / phone +43-1-2365605 / fax +43-1-2365605-25, e-mail: donjuandays(at)donjuanarchiv(dot)at