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Musical Gastronomies: Tasting Italian Opera and Food

The lecture by Dr. Pierpaolo Polzonetti (UC Davis) is open to the public and will be presented in person and on Zoom, on Wednesday, September 7th, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM PST. 

Opera and food are often perceived as defining aspects of Italian culture. Rarely, though, we think of an actual connection between the two. This lecture shows how convivial culture shaped opera-going rituals from Renaissance banquets to the 1950s. Tasting samples of operas from Monteverdi to Verdi will provide some food for thought about the uses of food in music theater to define identity, flirt, kill, or enjoy life.


Pierpaolo Polzonetti  (PhD, Cornell University) is Jan and Beta Popper Professor of Music at University of California, Davis. He specializes in opera and eighteenth-century music and culture. Dr. Polzonetti is the author of Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution, which won the American Musicological Society’s Lockwood Book Award. He is co-editor, with Anthony R. DelDonna, of the Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Opera. His research work has been funded by the Earhart Foundation, the American Council for Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

Join us: 
in person at North Gym (NG) 150 
or on Zoom
Meeting ID: 830 3705 9797; 
Passcode: 748061

Wednesday, September 07, 2022


Contact:

Dr. Andrea Polegato

Cost:

Free and open to the public