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Nina Penner

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Assistant Professor of Music, Brock University

My first book, Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater (Indiana University Press, 2020), explores how operas and musicals tell stories in comparison with other media. Through discussions of recent opera productions in Canada, I also reflect on how centuries-old works remain meaningful to contemporary audiences and have the power to attract new, more diverse audiences to opera and musical theatre.

My next project explores new models of authorship and collaboration in contemporary opera and musical theatre in Canada. The first stage of this work involves a survey and interviews of Indigenous, Black, and People of Colour who work is opera in Canada. The next stage focuses specifically on documenting how Indigenous-led operas that are being created right now are exploring new ways of working together.

Experience

  • 2020–present
    Assistant Professor of Music, Brock University

Education

  • 2016 
    McGill University, PhD, Musicology

Publications

  • 2020
    Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater, Indiana University Press
  • 2018
    Intentions in Theory and Practice, Music & Letters
  • 2017
    Rethinking the Diegetic/Nondiegetic Distinction in the Film Musical, Music and the Moving Image
  • 2013
    Opera Singing and Fictional Truth, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

Grants and Contracts

  • 2021
    Exploring New Collaborative Models in Indigenous-Led Opera in Canada
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    SSHRC Institutional Grant