Virtuality, Virtuosity: Mozart - A Visit by the Da Ponte Institute, Vienna January 16, 2007

The Da Ponte Institute will be hosting presentations on exhibit-making, featuring virtual exhibits from "Mozart: Experiment Aufklarung," an exhibition for Vienna's Mozart Year 2006. Press release can be downloaded at: http://www.albertina.at/cms/upload/presse/texte/2006/mozart/Mozart_press_release.pdf

In addition to virtual exhibits on display throughout the week, there will be an open house with Herbert Lachmayer, director of the Da Ponte Institute on Wednesday, 1/17 from 3-5 pm.

Herbert Lachmayer will also be lecturing on "Virtuality, Virtuosity: Mozart: Staging Knowledge for the 21st Century" on Thursday, 1/18 at noon, followed by a discussion with Da Ponte Institute representatives.

The Da Ponte Institute was founded in 2000 by Herbert Lachmayer as an international research association with the aim of setting up an institutional framework structure for long-term projects. The institutes fields of research draw on essential aspects in the life of the man after whom it is named: in the biography of Lorenzo da Ponte the themes of libretto, Don Juan and collecting overlap and exert a reciprocal influence on one another. This thematic elective affinity also characterises the central fields of research of the Da Ponte Institute: librettology, research on the Don Juan theme and the history of collecting. The focus of research is the opera of the 17th and 18th centuries and its cultural and socio-historical context. The Da Ponte Institute aims to generate new impulses as a research institution as well as a platform for cross-linking and as a partner for consultation in questions of artistic praxis.

More information on the Da Ponte Institute can be found at: www.daponte.at.

Da Ponte Institute visit sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center and the School of Humanities and Sciences.

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