7th International Conference «Opera in Musical Theater: History and Present Time»

March 25 2026

7th International Conference «Opera in Musical Theater: History and Present Time»
Moscow October 19–23, 2026

Department of Music Analysis and electronic peer-reviewed «Contemporary musicology» invite to an international conference «Opera in Musical Theater: History and Present Time» in Moscow, Russia, October 19–23, 2026.

The conference will be held in online and offline formats

Call for Papers

Future event is going to be the 6th conference within the framework of the continuing scientific project. The aim of this project: evaluation of present-day musical theater and its research, сonsideration of opera as a theatrical phenomenon.
The theme of the conference relates to the following areas:

opera as the synthetic genre;
opera genres in historical and cultural context;
opera librettos and literary sources: the word and music – from dramma per musica to Literaturoper;
issues of the opera performance: decorative art and staging;
baroque opera: history of production, new interpretations;
operatic works of contemporary composers: from the score to the performance;
opera perception;
opera score: textual criticism, editing and edition;
the latest trends in the musical theater: the new word-gesture-sound syncretism;
music in the drama theater.

We encourage applications from within the Аcademy at all levels but also independent researchers, writers and artists.

Submission process

Please send proposals to Irina Susidko, email: i.susidko@gnesin-academy.ru no late then September 01, 2026.

Emails should include:

photo close-up in TIFF or JPG format (from 300 to 600 dpi);
brief CV of each participant, including academic degree, academic title, place of work (position) or study, contact information (phone, e-mail);
title of presentation;
Abstracts should be ca. 300 words long (without any subheadings) and clearly present a research question/aim, critical review of the literature, methodology, results and conclusions. Abstracts should be submitted in pdf or docх.

Presentations should be 20 minutes in length, and will be followed by an additional 5 minutes for questions and discussion.

Official languages: Russian, English.

Full audiovisual support will be offered. For all enquiries please contact the organising team at i.susidko@gnesin-academy.ru.

Registration: Free. Рarticipants pay their own travel and accommodation expenses.

Proceedings:

Selected revised papers will be published in a special issue of online scientific journal «Contemporary musicology» (Scopus).

For more information about manuscript preparation visit the magazine’s website: http://gnesinsjournal.ru