Chancellor Jackman Graduate Fellow
Sadie Menicanin (Faculty of Music) is a historical musicologist whose dissertation traces connections between gardens as built spaces and as constructed in dramatic musical works. In early twentieth-century Vienna, gardens occupied an important place in urban life as well as in the artistic imaginations of its residents. Immersive and multisensory, gardens in this context were transporting retreats from undesirable urban realities and sites for the performative display of contemporary cultural values. Using Foucault’s concept of the heterotopia, her research examines how operatic gardens engaged with contemporary cultural discourses around green space and pleasure across musical, dramatic, and visual dimensions. Supervisor: Sherry Lee, Faculty of Music.
What I'm working on: Gardens as Heterotopias in Early Twentieth-Century Viennese Opera