Opera at Cardiff
The School of Music has established a new platform for interdisciplinary collaboration in opera research both within and beyond Cardiff University.
Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research in Opera (CIRO) was officially launched in May 2012 at the School’s Love to Death: Transforming Opera conference held at the Wales Millennium Centre in association with the Royal Musical Association.
CIRO plans to host a programme of events each year, including seminars (with home, visiting and international speakers), workshops, reading sessions, and panel discussions. Bringing together such a diverse range of expertise will enrich individual work as well as leading to publications, new creative work, and funding applications for multi-and interdisciplinary research projects.
CIRO members are drawn from the Schools of Music, Social Sciences, English, Communication & Philosophy, Psychology, and European Languages, Translation & Politics. External organisations represented include Welsh National Opera, Music Theatre Wales, DARE (an Opera North/University of Leeds partnership), and Opera’r Ddraig.
For a full list of members, click here.
Opera studies at Cardiff
The School of Music has a growing reputation as a centre for opera studies. Our diverse range of academic staff means that research undertaken at the School tackles the field from several different approaches.
To learn more about current opera research at Cardiff, from eighteenth-century burlesques to contemporary compositions, visit: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/music/research/operastudies/index.html