David Levin // Artist Talk

Music scholar David Levin visits Professor Wang Lu's Composition Seminar from 10-11:30am on Wednesday, October 21. The topic of Professor Levin's talk is "Something Coming of Nothing: Patrice Chéreau's Production of Cosi fan tutte for Aix-en-Provence." This meeting will take place in Orwig Music Building, room 315.

Admission is free and open to the Brown University community. Brown ID is required to swipe into the building.

David Levin is the Alice H. and Stanley G. Harris Jr.

Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, Department of Cinema & Media Studies, the Committee on Theater and Performance Studies, and the College, The University of Chicago. David Levin My work focuses on the aesthetics and politics of performance in opera, theater, film, and dance.

I am fascinated by the interpretive work that performance does and that it occasions. I've written most extensively about Wagner and the stakes of staging, but my work extends to encompass a broad range of genres and periods.

In addition to my academic work, I've served as a dramaturg for various opera houses in Germany and the United States as well for the choreographers William Forsythe (in Frankfurt) and Saar Magal (in Munich). Additional research interests include: The aesthetics and politics of performance in theater, film, opera, and dance; the possibilities and limits of critique; how we read cultural objects; spectatorship and the history of immersion and distraction.