For the Study of the History, Languages, and Cultures of Azerbaijan, the Caucasus and Central Asia
Making Opera in the Steppe: Early Soviet Musical Theatre in Kazakhstan, 1930–1950
3 May 17:00
Seminar Room 4, New College, Oxford
Speaker: Nari Shelekpayev (European University, St. Petersburg/ONGC)
Nari Shelekpayev explores the invention of opera in the Soviet Kazakhstan as both a political resource and a nation-building tool and its evolution in the 1930s. Using materials from Kazakh and Russian archives, he looks at the ways in which opera served to translate between the local and universal languages of music, and between highbrow and lowbrow genres of artistic performance. Find out more about his research here.
This talk is part of the TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar Series for Trinity Term 2022. Please find the full programme here.
