Research institute for musical theater

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Thurnau Castle, seat of the FIMT

The Research Institute for Music Theater (fimt) is an institution of the University of Bayreuth for the investigation of opera and music theater (including ballet , dance theater , operetta and musicals ) in general. It is located in Thurnau Castle in the Kulmbach district .

history

The Research Institute for Music Theater was founded in 1976 with the participation of Pierre Boulez , Carl Dahlhaus , Werner Egk , August Everding and Wolfgang Wagner as the central institution of the University of Bayreuth. Since 1977 it has been based at Thurnau Castle, where there is a specialist library with around 40,000 media and an archive (with opera programs and other things). From 1983 to 2006 the institute was headed by Sieghart Döhring , who put one of his research focuses on the opera composer Giacomo Meyerbeer . Together with Carl Dahlhaus, the institute published Piper's Encyclopedia of Music Theater between 1986 and 1997 , a six-volume manual in which almost 2500 works of music theater are presented in detail. Since 1987, the director of the institute has also held the newly established chair for theater studies, with special emphasis on music theater at the University of Bayreuth. The academic staff at fimt also teaches music and theater studies at the University of Bayreuth.

Played a pivotal role of the Institute in 1992 in Prague , the European Music Theater Academy (EMA) founded.

On FIMT a number of prominent scientists have for decades worked and where research on the musical theater decisive impulses. To be mentioned here are Gabriele Brandstetter , Markus Engelhardt , Rainer Franke , Arnold Jacobshagen , Manuela Jahrmärker, Marion Linhardt , Gunhild Oberzaucher-Schüller , Thomas Steiert , Klaus Kieser , Susanne Rode-Breymann , Mathias Spohr , Susanne Vill and Michael Walter .

The institute has been headed by Anno Mungen since 2006 . Mungen represents an expanded concept of music theater that includes not only the classical genres (opera, operetta, musical, ballet) but also other constellations of music, theatricality, visuality and movement (such as performances or music and carnival). Since the institute returned to the restored premises of the Hans Georgen Building in 2007, regular chamber concerts have taken place in the ancestral hall of Thurnau Castle.

Training and activities

In the study program, in collaboration with the professorships in musicology and theater studies at the University of Bayreuth, students can acquire a Bachelor of Arts in Music Theater Studies , a Master of Arts “Music and Performance” and a Doctor of Philosophy . The series “Thurnauer Schriften zum Musiktheater” has existed since 1978. Since 2010, the institute has published the online publication “ACT - Journal for Music and Performance”. The fimt is a center of interdisciplinary research and promotes cooperation with national and international musical theater institutions. The research institute offers an international discussion forum with projects and events.

Every two years the "Thurnauer Prize for Music Theater Studies" is awarded to outstanding young scientists. The project bundle “Music - Voice - Gender”, funded by the German Research Foundation, has been running since 2010, including on gender concepts in 19th century opera.

For Richard Wagner's 200th birthday, the research center organized the WagnerWorldWide 2013 together with the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and the University of South Carolina .

Publications (selection)

  • Carl Dahlhaus and Sieghart Döhring (eds.): Piper's Enzyklopädie des Musiktheater . Piper: Munich and Zurich 1986–1997.
  • Anno Mungen and Anne-Henrike Wasmuth (Eds.): Music theater - Quo vadis? Schliengen: Edition Argus, 2007.
  • Anno Mungen (Ed.): In the middle of life. Music theater from opera to everyday performance (= Thurnauer Schriften zum Musiktheater 23), Würzburg 2011.
  • The Wagner Lexicon . Edited on behalf of the Research Institute for Music Theater Thurnau by Daniel Brandenburg , Rainer Franke and Anno Mungen. Laaber: Laaber-Verlag , 2012, ISBN 978-3-89007-550-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mungen, Wasmuth, p. 193
  2. ↑ fimt - Research Institute for Music Theater. Home page. In: fimt.uni-bayreuth.de. Retrieved April 8, 2020 .
  3. ↑ WWW2013: Europe. Wagner and the music theater between nationalism and globalization - International Symposium. In: musik.unibe.ch. 2012, accessed February 8, 2019 .
  4. ^ Society for Music Research . To the university project WagnerWorldWide 2013 . Retrieved February 3, 2013.

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