Teaching Workshop: Theatre and Music: Cultural History and Law

The workshop intends to explore the various dimensions in which the relationship between opera and law is articulated, with a strongly interdisciplinary approach in which musicological and textual analysis (booklets, literary sources) are combined, with legal analysis and, more in general, history, in the wake of cultural history and anthropology. By its very composite nature, in which different media and sources are articulated (music, text, representation), opera - originally addressed to a determined audience - presents itself as a particularly fertile ground for analysis aimed at highlighting the work of legal and, more generally, cultural schemes and models, both in terms of the creation of the theatrical and musical text, and in terms of its use and circulation. We can see several fields in which the relationship between opera and law is articulated: they concern, for example, the narration of facts and legal relationships in the context of the work (the contract, the marriage, the donations, the process ...); the relationship between censorship and theatrical text; the role played by copyright in structuring the "morphology" of the work; censorship; the operating rules which, in history, have governed the theatrical institutions, and the way in which these rules have influenced the same aesthetic evolution of the theatrical product.