The project Telling Operatic Stories: Race, ethics, and authenticity, is centered on Opera North's upcoming productions of Orpheus. Orpheus, a collaboration with South Asian Arts UK and composer Jasdeep Singh Degun, reimagines Monteverdi's L'Orfeo. This project will combine opera analysis, contemporary music ethics, postcolonial studies, and critical theory, to explore encounters with diverse perspectives, memories, and future visions. It seeks to delve into the pressing issues of opera storytelling, audience reception, storytelling rights, and fostering authentic creative voices. By examining questions of who has the right to tell certain stories and how organizations facilitate or hinder genuine creative expression, the project aims to animate and underpin the discussions around these ethical dilemmas.
Hi, here is Renie:) I am an undergraduate student at HKU majoring in Sociology.
I have keen interests in Latin America studies, urban studies, film studies, and community construction. As a queer feminist, I also practice sociology in a everyday sense, weaving love and the tenderest corner in a creative way - treating daily life as sociological act and photography as spatial documentation.
For my Laidlaw research, I will work on a project named Telling Operatic Stories: Race, ethics, and authenticity at the University of Leeds. Given the breadth of the interdisciplinary nature of opera studies, this research will include, while not limited to musicology, performance studies, and sociology, in a way of exploring decolonization, ethics, and representation.
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