EUROPE AND EUROPEANS ON THE OTTOMAN / TURKISH STAGE AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF OPERA IN TURKEY FROM THE 19TH UNTIL THE MID-20TH CENTURY – 9th – 10th June 2022
Trautsongasse 6/6, 1080 Vienna
Symposium by Don Juan Archiv Wien
In cooperation with :
- Theatre Foundation of Turkey
- Vienna School of International Studies
- Pera Museum
- iTi – International Theatre Institute of UNESCO Centre Austria
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 9th June 2022
09:00–09:45 Opening and Introduction
MATTHIAS J. PERNERSTORFER
( DON JUAN ARCHIV WIEN )
AMBASSADOR OZAN CEYHUN
( AMBASSADOR OF THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY )
DAVID SCHRIFFL
( FEDERAL MINISTRY EUROPE, INTEGRATION AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS GENERAL DIRECTORATE FOR INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL RELATIONS )
SILVIA NEUREITER
( AUSTRIAN CULTURAL FORUM ISTANBUL )
M. ÖZALP BIROL
( PERA MUSEUM )
HELGA DOSTAL
( INTERNATIONAL THEATRE INSTITUTE OF UNESCO CENTRE AUSTRIA )
SUNA SUNER
( DON JUAN ARCHIV WIEN )
09:45–10:15 Opening Lecture
| ESEN ÇAMURDAN (THEATRE FOUNDATION OF TURKEY) Un voyage panoramique à travers l’histoire du théâtre turc de la seconde moitié du XIXesiècle au milieu du XXesiècle |
10:15–10:30 Coffee Break
10:30–12:00 Session I
| GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE OTTOMAN THEATRE Chair: YAVUZ KÖSE |
| AYŞAN SÖNMEZ (ISTANBUL / PARIS) Kostantiniyye / Istanbul: the Cradle of Modern European (Armenian) Theatre (1850–1876) SELÇUK ESENBEL (ISTANBUL) The Nineteenth Century Journey of European Culture to the East: Late Ottoman Istanbul Theatre from a Japanese Perspective (1881–1921) CAFER SARIKAYA (ISTANBUL) Celebrating Difference: “Turkish Theatre” in the World’s Columbian Exposition – Chicago, 1893 |
12:00–13:30 Lunch Break
13:30–15:00 Session II
| TRADITIONAL TURKISH PERFORMING ARTS FACING EUROPEAN THEATRE Chair: MICHAEL HÜTTLER |
| AHMET AKŞIT (ISTANBUL) The Transition from Kol oyunu to Ortaoyunu and the Emergence of Tuluat (From the Mid-18th Century to the Early 20th Century) PERI EFE (ISTANBUL / VIENNA) Molière in Karagöz and Karagiozis from the Second Half of the 19th Century to the Mid-20th Century ERIK BLACKTHORNE-O’BARR (NEW YORK) Singing on “The World’s Stage”: Kanto and Late Ottoman Social Life (1880–1920) |
15:00–15:30 Coffee Break
15:30–17:00 Session III
| FLOURISHING OPERA IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE Chair: REINHARD EISENDLE |
| ÖZGECAN KARADAĞLI KUNTZ (ISTANBUL) Impresarios, Rivalry, and the Growth of Opera in the Ottoman Empire during the 1870s VITTORIO CATTELAN (VENICE) Three Stories of the Italian Opera in Constantinople during the Early Nineteenth Century (1828–1856): Donizetti Paşa (1788–1856), the Translations of Metastasio (1698–1782) by Hovannes Eremian, and the conductor Angelo Mariani (1821–1873) SERHAN BALI (ISTANBUL) Sultan Abdülhamid II’s Favorite Actor: Arturo Stravolo Bey (1867– 1956) and His Glamorous Stage Career in the Yıldız Palace Theatre |
17:00–17:30 Coffee Break
17:30–19:00 Session IV
| PERFORMING GENDER Chair: SUNA SUNER |
| ÇIĞDEM KILIÇ (ISTANBUL) Köçeks, Tavşans and Zennes in Ottoman Performances from the 17th Century to the 19th Century JACOB OLLEY (CAMBRIDGE) La belle Hélène in Beyoğlu: Gender, Morality and Modernity on the Ottoman Operatic Stage (1874, 1876) RÜSTEM ERTUĞ ALTINAY (ISTANBUL) A Dissident Queer Libretto from 1932 and Its Archival Afterlives: Temporal Politics of the Opera in Early Republican Turkey |
Friday, 10th June 2022
09:30–11:30 Session V
| THEATRE AND URBAN IDENTITY IN ISTANBUL Chair: MATTHIAS J. PERNERSTORFER |
| YAVUZ PEKMAN (ISTANBUL) Staging Europe: Italian Stage as an Instrument of Ottoman Westernization (1870–1920) SEBLA ARIN ENSARIOĞLU (BURSA / ISTANBUL) Theatre Buildings in 19th and Early 20th Century Istanbul from the Perspective of Urban Memory (1830–1920) NAZENDE YILMAZ (ISTANBUL) French Theatres and Concert Venues in Pera (1860–1905) ÇIĞDEM KURT WILLIAMS (ISTANBUL) Celebs in the City: How the Stars and Stories of 19th Century French Theatre Played in Istanbul (1887–1905) |
11:30–12:00 Coffee Break
12:00–13:30 Session VI
| CREATING THE TURKISH NATIONAL OPERA Chair: GISELA PROCHÁZKA-EISL |
| MEHMET KEREM ÖZEL (ISTANBUL) An Important Station on the Way to Turkey’s First Monumental Opera House: Şehzadebaşı Theatre and Conservatory Building Architectural Project Competition (1934) TATJANA MARKOVIĆ (VIENNA) Establishing Turkish National Opera in Southeast European Context (1934) ELIF DAMLA YAVUZ (ISTANBUL) Competing Politics: Contemplating the Opera Öz Soy (1934) by Ahmed Adnan Saygun (1907–1991) |
13:30–15:00 Lunch Break
15:00–16:30 Session VII
| A COUNTRY SEEKING ITS VOICE AND ‘PAROLE’ Chair: SERHAN BALI |
| ALKIM CEBECI, IDIL ÖZCAN, ELIF DAMLA YAVUZ (ISTANBUL) Visions, Expectations and Experiences: Carl Ebert’s (1887–1980) First Years in Turkey (1936–1939) İDIL ÖZCAN (ISTANBUL) Faust in Turkey: On and Behind the Stage (1926–1950) DIVIN GENÇOĞLAN (ISTANBUL) Nimet Vahid (c.1902–2003): Sociology of a Primadonna |
16:30 Closure and Reflections 17:00 Bread & Wine