A History of Rigoletto at Opera North
Unpacking Opera North’s various approaches to Verdi’s opera and its depiction of disability.
Dramaturgical Prosthesis: Disability Imagery in David Pountney and Dan Potra’s The Portrait
Canes, wheelchairs, and symbolic blindness for dramatic effect?
Insights on Storytelling and Tradition from Opera Mariposa
“How does opera… an art form rooted in centuries of tradition… embrace the future of storytelling – particularly against the backdrop of a global reckoning with systematic inequalities?”
Strategies for Access and Inclusion from Opera Mariposa
A panel of Deaf and disabled artists and advocates discuss accessibility in opera, during the pandemic and beyond.
The Paradis Files: Opera like Never Before?
This new opera is breaking ground in terms of accessibility, inclusion and disability representation in the genre.
Talking inclusive casting with Beth Hinton-Lever
How is inclusive casting shaping conversations about disability representation on stage and screen?
‘I’m not a box to tick, I’m an actor!’ In conversation with Beth Hinton-Lever
Beth Hinton-Lever on her stage career, disability activism, and performative diversity in theatre.
Music and Disability Studies: Exploring the Literature
A dive into the existing literature on music and disability studies.
The 2019 Classical Music Industry Conference
Notes from the 2019 Classical Music Industry Conference (CMIC2019) at Middlesex University, London.
Disability Mimicry: Exhibition and Erasure
A first look at ‘disability mimicry’ and how it enables the simultaneous exhibition and erasure of disability on the operatic stage.
Normality and Abnormality in Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg
Juxtaposing disabled characters alongside aesthetically normative counterparts in the operatic canon.
Kill or Cure? The Fates of Disabled Characters in the Operatic Canon
What happens to disabled characters in opera?