Bluebeard and redstockings – Go deeper with researchers from the Universities of Oslo, Berkeley, and Chicago

Here you will have the opportunity to become better acquainted with the three works in the triple-bill Bluebeard's castle, with Tobias Kratzer's production, and with feminist interpretations of the myth of the woman who enters the castle of a mysterious man.

How is this narrative relevant to us today? How can men's retellings of women's lives be part of a feminist project? And what can we really learn from this specific performance?

You will hear:

• Tobias Kratzer, director
• Mary-Ann Smart, Professor of Music, University of California, Berkeley.
• David Levin, Professor in the Departments of Germanic Studies and Cinema and Media Studies, and Theater and Performance Studies, University of Chicago.
• Erling Guldbrandsen, Professor of Musicology, University of Oslo.
• Jorunn Økland, Professor of Theology and Gender Studies, University of Oslo.
• Tone Brekke, Senior Lecturer in Literature and Gender Studies, University of Oslo.
• Sadie Menicanin, Postdoctoral Fellow in Musicology, University of Oslo.
• Auksė Beatričė Katarskytė, PhD student in Gender Studies, University of Oslo.
• Eline Korbi, soprano
• Boris Schäfer, pianist
• Hedda Høgåsen-Hallesby, dramaturg at The Norwegian Opera & Ballet

Time and place:

Friday 19 January from 13.00–16.00, The Education Centre, The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet.

The seminar takes place in English, it is free and does not require a ticket – however, we strongly recommend that you buy a ticket for the performance Bluebeard's Castle!