Opera and Musical Performance: Forms of Emancipation

This panel invites explorations of opera and musical performance as forms of emancipation: emancipatory narratives; emancipating voices, bodies, and identities in performance; emancipation of opera and other musical genres from institutional biases and aesthetic norms.

Deadline for submissions: Sunday, March 15, 2026

Jennifer Sheppard, Royal Academy of Music (jsheppard@ram.ac.uk )