Pastiching as Artistic Research: Ifigenia/Ipermestra (Brussels, 2006) Orpheus Institute
On 6 December 2006, students of the Royal Conservatoire of Brussels performed two one-act pasticci arranged by the author of this article: Ifigenia and Ipermestra. Assembled by the author of this article as experiments in the young discipline of artistic research in music, both ‘cut & paste’ operas offered opportunities to explore issues of music-dramatic syntax in opera seria. In the article, I explain how individual arias and recitatives were combined into two meta-compositions that sometimes respected, and sometimes overrode the eighteenth-century generic conventions. By ...