Hans Ernst Weidinger (Vienna):
Don Juan, Ottoman Empire and European Theatre: A Proem
Ouverture
Michael Hüttler (Vienna) and Hans Ernst Weidinger (Vienna/Florence):
Editorial
Michael Hüttler (Vienna):
Orientalism on Stage: Historical Approaches and Scholarly Reception
Opening Speeches – Symposium Vienna (April 25–26, 2008)
Programme
Helga Dostal (Vienna):
UNESCO International Theatre Institute (ITI) – Austrian Centre
H. Exc. SelIm Yenel (Vienna):
Ambassador of the Turkish Republic in Austria
H. Exc. Emil Brix (Vienna):
Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cultural Section
Opening Speeches – Symposium Istanbul (June 5–6, 2008)
Programme
Christian Brunmayr:
Austrian Cultural Forum Istanbul
Cemal Öztas (Ankara):
Grand National Assembly of Turkey
H. Exc. Heidemaria Gürer (Ankara):
Ambassadress of the Republic of Austria in Turkey
Academic Bass
Wolfgang Greisenegger (Vienna):
University of Vienna
Ilber Ortayli (Istanbul):
Topkapi palace Museum Istanbul
Metin And (Ankara):
Turkish Academy of Sciences
Dedication to the Genius of Opera
Zeynep Oral (Istanbul):
In Memoriam Leyla Gencer
Prologue: The Stage of Politics
Historical Overview
Bertrand Michael Buchmann (Vienna):
Austria's Relations with the Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century
Mehmet Alaaddin Yalçinkaya (Trabzon):
The Ottoman Empire and Europe in the Wake of the Second Half of the Eigteenth Century
Act I: Diplomacy and Theatre
Earliest Performances
Suna Suner (Istanbul/Vienna):
The Earliest Opera Performances in the Ottoman World and the Role of Diplomacy: A Remapping from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century
Walter Puchner (Athens):
European Drama and Theatre in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul
Ambassadors and Envoys
B. Babür Turna (Ankara):
The Watcher and the Watched: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Diplomatic Visitors in Europe as Spectator and ‘Performer’
Günsel Renda (Istanbul):
The European Ambassadors at the Ottoman Court: The Imperial Protocol in the Eighteenth Century
Frank Huss (Vienna):
“Auf türkische Art prächtig aufgeputzt”: The Visit to Vienna by the Extraordinary Ottoman Envoy, Chaddi Mustafa Efendi, in the Year 1748
Jannissaries and
Mehter
– Turkish Military Music
William F. Parmentier II (Istanbul):
The
Mehter
: Cultural Perceptions and Interpretations of Turkish Drum and Bugle Music Throughout History
Act II: Europe South, West and North
Milan, London and Vienna
Alexandre Lhâa (Aix-en-Provence):
Performing ‘Turkish Rulers’ on the Teatro alla Scala’s Stage: From the Late Eighteenth to the Mid Nineteenth Century
Esin Akalin (Istanbul):
The Ottoman Seraglio on European Stages
Emre Araci (London):
“Help for the Turk”: Investigating Ottoman Musical Representations in Britain from the Late Eighteenth to the Mid Nineteenth Century
Copenhagen and Paris
Bent Holm (Copenhagen):
The Staging of the Turk: The Turk in the Danish Theatre of the Eighteenth Century
Isabelle Moindrot (Paris):
The ‘Turk’ and the ‘Parisienne’: From Favart’s
Soliman second, ou Les trois sultanes
(1761) to
Les Trois Sultanes
(Pathé, 1912)
Act III: Central Europe
From Paris to Vienna
Thomas Betzwieser (Bayreuth):
Ottoman Representation and Theatrical
alla turca
: Visiting an Unknown Viennese Source of ‘Turkish’ Incidental Music
Michael Hüttler (Vienna):
‘Turks’ on the Late Eighteenth Century’s Viennese Stage: A Research Project Based on the Viennese Repertoire
Matthias J. Pernerstorfer (Vienna):
The Second Turkish Siege of Vienna (1683) Reflected in its First Centenary: ‘Anniversary Plays’ in the Pálffy Theatre Library, Vienna
From Vienna to Lwiv
Erich Duda (Vienna):
Mozart’s Pupil and Friend: Franz Xaver Süssmayr’s
Sinfonia Turchesca, Il Turco in Italia
, and
Soliman der Zweite
Gabriele C. Pfeiffer (Vienna):
Freemason, Mozart’s Contemporary, and Theatre Director on the Edge: Franz Kratter (1758–1830) and
Der Friede am Pruth
(1799). Cataloguing the Komplex Mauerbach, Vienna
Act IV: Mozart
Mozart and ‘Turkishness’
Matthew Head (London):
‘In the Orient of Vienna’: Mozart’s ‘Turkish’ Music and the Theatrical Self
Marianne Tråvén (Uppsala):
Getting Emotional: Mozart’s ‘Turkish’ Operas and the Emotive Aspect of Slavery
Serail Revisited
Derek Weber (Vienna):
From
Zaide
to
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
: Mozart’s ‘Turkish’ Operas
Nadja Kayali (Vienna):
Mozart’s ‘Orient’ on Stage
The Elegant Voyager to The City of The Sublime Porte
Annemarie Bönsch (Vienna):
‘Turkish’ and ‘Exotic’ References in the European Fashion of the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
Selin Ipek (Istanbul):
European Influences on Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Imperial Fashion
Käthe Springer-Dissmann (Vienna):
Mozart Goes to Constantinople! The Real Conditions of a Fictitious Journey
Act V: Sultan Selim III
In the Ottoman Empire 1756–1808
Tülay Artan (Istanbul):
A Composite Universe: Arts and Society in Istanbul at the End of the Eighteenth Century
Caroline Herfert (Vienna):
‘German Poet and Turkish Diplomat’: Murad Efendi, Ottoman Consul in Temeswar, and the Tragedy
Selim der Dritte
Sultan Selim III: A Man of Letters and Arts
Günsel Renda (Istanbul):
Selim III as Patron of the Arts
Mustafa Fatih Salgar (Istanbul):
Selim III as a Man of Letters and Art
Aysin Candan (Istanbul):
The Play World of Sultan Selim III
Epilogue
The Hero in the Sultan’s Harem
Ulrike Schneider (Weimar):
Between Enlightenment and Orient:
Oberon
by Christoph Martin Wieland
Hans-Peter Kellner (Copenhagen):
From The Prince of Denmark in the Sultan’s Harem to Don Juan in the Royal Danish Chambers: The Forgotten Composer Friedrich Ludwig Aemilius Kunzen (1761–1817)
Appendix
Picture Gallery
Index
Curricula Vita
