Psychoanalysis and Street Scene
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Inspired by Kurt Weill’s 1947 opera Street Scene, this event will take a closer look at the themes of dreams and disillusionment which preoccupy the opera’s characters over one hot summer’s day and night in a New York boarding house and the street outside.
They in part represent the American dream, coming from different countries and backgrounds, each with dreams and ambitions for success and longing for relief from the pain, the poverty, and frustrations of their lives. These struggles are also at the heart of the human condition with which psychoanalysis concerns itself; investigating how the conflicts between love and hate, and hope and despair, affect our capacity to thrive and develop.
With presentations from a musical and a psychoanalytic perspective, sung excerpts from Opera North’s upcoming production of Street Scene and discussions amongst presenters and the audience, this event should offer an enlivening experience for anyone, well versed in opera and psychoanalysis or new to them both.
This is a Summer School Projects event – a collaboration between Opera North and the Institute of Psychoanalysis supported by the European Psychoanalytical Federation.
Times
The talk will run 10am – 1pm, registration opens at 9.30am
Contributors:
Giselle Allen, Soprano | Anna Maurrant in Street Scene for Opera North
Dr David Bell, Psychoanalyst | One of UK’s leading psychiatric experts in asylum and human rights
James Holmes, Conductor of Street Scene | Member of Board of Trustees of Kurt Weill Foundation
*Purchase a ticket to this event and receive a 25% discount code for Street Scene on 25 Jan. Terms and conditions apply, please check the Institute of Psychoanalysis website for details.
