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January 16 - 19, 2007

Virtuality, Virtuosity: Mozart
A Visit by the Da Ponte Institute, Vienna

Presentations on exhibit-making, featuring virtual exhibits from "Mozart: Experiment Aufklarung," a Da Ponte Institute exhibition for Vienna's Mozart Year 2006

Da Ponte Institute visit sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center and the School of Humanities and Sciences

About the Institute

The Da Ponte Institute was founded in 2000 by Herbert Lachmayer as an international research association with the aim of setting up an institutional framework structure for long-term projects. The institute’s fields of research draw on essential aspects in the life of the man after whom it is named: in the biography of Lorenzo da Ponte the themes of libretto, Don Juan and collecting overlap and exert a reciprocal influence on one another. This thematic ‘elective affinity’ also characterises the central fields of research of the Da Ponte Institute: librettology, research on the Don Juan theme and the history of collecting. The focus of research is the opera of the 17th and 18th centuries and its cultural and socio-historical context. The Da Ponte Institute aims to generate new impulses as a research institution as well as a platform for cross-linking and as a partner for consultation in questions of artistic praxis.

Program

Tuesday, January 16 - Friday, January 19
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Virtual Exhibits on display

Wednesday, January 17, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Open House with Herbert Lachmayer, director of the Da Ponte Institute


Thursday, January 18, 12:00 noon

Lecture by Herbert Lachmayer
"Virtuality, Virtuosity: Mozart: Staging Knowledge for the 21st Century"
Followed by a discussion with Herbert Lachmayer and Da Ponte Institute representatives, Brigitte Felderer and Reinhard Eisendle.

All events take place at the Stanford Humanities Center and are free and open to the public.

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