Schoenberg in Hollywood and Representations of Jewishness in Opera

There is a long history of representing Jewishness on the operatic stage. Calico's talk situates Tod Machover's Schoenberg in Hollywood (2018) in that tradition, and considers the ways in which music, libretto, and staging conventions index various aspects of Jewish identity. This video is from the Lowell Milken Lecture in Jewish Music with Professor Joy H. Calico