The Passionate Arts in the Early Modern World

Hosted by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotion, the Perth International Arts Festival and the UWA School of Music.

Date: Friday 6th March 2015
Time: 9:30am-3:30pm; 7:00pm-8:30pm
Venue: Callaway Music Auditorium,The University of Western Australia

The full-day event features a symposium featuring CHE experts, and an evening lecture-concert, “The Rhetoric of Passion; Eloquence in the Golden Age of Italian Music.” World-renowned musical director William Christie with singers and musicians from ‘Les Arts Florissants’ will focus on the portrayal of human emotions as conceived by the Italian composers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The evening will include arias on rage, jealousy, beauty, and love.

For a detailed schedule of the day’s events, please visit: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/the-passionate-arts-in-the-early-modern-world.aspx