2. Reinhard Buchberger (Vienna)
The Austro-Turkish War of 1788-1791 as Reflected in the Library of the Viennese Bibliophile Collector Max von Portheim

15:30 Coffee break

15.45 Session VI

Chair: Michael Hüttler (Vienna)

1. Emre Aracı (London)
“Each villa on the Bosphorus looks a screen, New painted, or a pretty opera scene”: Mahmud II (1808-1839) Setting the Ottoman Stage for Italian Opera and Viennese Music

2. Caroline Herfert (Vienna)
Selim III and Mahmud II in the Limelight: Imparting Knowledge on the Ottoman Empire from the Perspective of the “Viennese Turk,” Murad Efendi

19:30 Closing Program: Recital at the Bibliotheca Theresiana (by invitation)

Emre Aracı (Concept and Presentation), Anna Pangalou (Mezzo-Soprano), Dieter Paier (Piano)
Sultans At The Opera

ISTANBUL

04.06.2009

10:30 Istanbul Symposium Opening

including

Christian Brunmayr (Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum)

Ilber Ortaylı (President of Topkapi Palace Museum)

Michael Hüttler (Don Juan Archiv Wien)

11.00 Session I

Chair: Michael Hüttler (Vienna)

1. Alaaddin Yalcinkaya (Trabzon)
Recruitment of European Experts for Service in the Ottoman Empire (1732-1808)

2. Babür Turna (Ankara)
Diplomacy and the Changing Dynamics of Entertainment in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Empire

12:30 Coffee break

12.45 Session II

Chair: Walter Puchner (Athens)

1. Suna Suner (Istanbul/Vienna)
Opera and Diplomacy, Second Act: Ambassadors and Ministers in the Italian Opera during the Time of Joseph Haydn

2. Netice Yildiz (Famagusta)
Briton-Ottomans and Ottomans in England during Haydn’s Era

14:15 Lunchbreak

15.30 Session III

Chair: Larry Wolff (New York)

1. Hans-Peter Kellner (Copenhagen)
The Sultan of Denmark: Voltaire’s Zaïre and King Christian VII (1768-1808) – Madness and Enlightenment

2. Bent Holm (Istanbul)
Unexpected Encounters: C.W. Gluck’s Rencontre imprévue - a Sujet also Used by Haydn - Performed in Copenhagen, 1776

19:30 Evening Program: Concert at the Austrian Cultural Forum

Aydın Karlıbel (Piano)

Aylin Yağcıoğlu (Soprano)

05.06.2009

10.30 Session IV

Chair: Günsel Renda (Inquired 23.03.) (Istanbul)

1. Matthias Pernerstorfer (Vienna)
“Turks” and the “Turkish” in the Viennese Repertoire at the Time of Joseph Haydn

2. Cetin Sarikartal (Istanbul)
Plays Written by Europeans in the Turkish Language at the Academy of Oriental Languages in Vienna during the Age of Haydn. Thomas Chabert: Hikayet-i İbda-i Yeniceriyan Ba Bereket-i Pir-i Bektasiyan Seyh Haci Bektas Veli-i Musliman (1810), and (Author Unknown): Godefroi de Bouillon (1757)

12:00 Coffee break

12.15 Session V

Chair: Suraiya Faroqhi (Munich / Istanbul)

1. Larry Wolf (New York)
Turkish Travesty in European Opera: From Haydn's Lo Speziale (1768) to Rossini's La Pietra del Paragone (1812), L'Italiana in Algeri (1813) and Il Turco in Italia (1814)

2. Walter Puchner (Athens)
Karagöz and the History of Ottoman Shadow Theatre in the Balkans: Diffusion, Functions, and Assimilations

13:45 Lunch break

15.00 Session VI

Chair: H. E. Weidinger (Vienna)

1. Orlin Sabev (Sofia)
European Printers in Istanbul during Haydn’s Era (1732-1809): Ibrahim Müteferrika and others

2. Günsel Renda (Istanbul)
Westernisms and Ottoman Visual Culture in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century: Wall Paintings

19:30 Closing Program: Recital at the Austrian Cultural Forum

Anna Pangalou (Mezzo-Soprano)
Hommage to Leyla Gencer, ‘La Diva Turca’

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