Descripción del proyecto
El lugar de la ópera en un mundo digital
¿Ha cambiado la forma en que los aficionados ven la ópera? En la actualidad, las interacciones entre el público y los teatros se producen en gran medida a través de plataformas en línea y medios digitales. La pandemia de COVID-19 ha hecho aún más difusa la división entre el escenario y la pantalla. El equipo del proyecto OPANDA, financiado con fondos europeos, se centra en la afición a la ópera contemporánea y reconsidera las prácticas del público en el pasado, a la vez que vislumbra posibles prácticas futuras. Su investigación se basa en un análisis comparativo y cualitativo de estudios de casos representativos, en el que se combina etnografía digital sobre comunidades web y fanzines, observación de los miembros de compañías de ópera (como el Teatro de La Scala de Milán y la Ópera Nacional de París) y entrevistas con aficionados y profesionales de la ópera.
Objetivo
Today, interactions between audiences and theatres occur to a significant extent via online platforms and digital media. OPANDA studies the impact of these transformative technologies on opera fandom. Although recent research has addressed the digital dissemination of opera, the phenomenon of cyber-fandom remains under-researched. Situated at the intersection of musicology, sociology and media studies, the project asks how opera fans perform their passion digitally. This entails the investigation of their interactions on the web, but the project also considers how cyber-fandom intersects with traditional fan behaviour. In a post-pandemic and hyper-mediatised society in which the divide between stage and screen is constantly blurred, the project reconsiders past audience practices and envisions possible future ones.
OPANDA aims at providing a pioneering study of today’s opera fans (i.e. the most active operagoers), including their digital practices and communities. To reach this goal, OPANDA is based on a comparative and qualitative analysis of representative case studies, combining digital ethnography on web communities and fanzines, participant observation at opera companies (La Scala, Paris Opera, the New York Metropolitan Opera), and interviews with fans.
Dr Nicolò Palazzetti (Researcher) is well placed to carry out this research thanks to an outstanding background in musicology and sociology, and a solid expertise in performing ethnography among opera fans. By situating his project at Sapienza University of Rome, he advances his career in new directions. He has the key opportunity to work with Prof. Emanuele Senici (Supervisor), a prominent opera scholar specialising in opera and media, and with Prof. Romana Andò (co-supervisor), an expert in fan studies. A training-based secondment at the Digital Ethnography Research Centre in Melbourne and a dissemination-based secondment at the Music Department of Yale University support the achievement of the project.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
MSCA-PF - MSCA-PFCoordinador
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