Deadline: 30 May 2012
Open to: any interested author
Award: the winner will be invited to read her/his paper during the Scholarly Papers Session, Scholarly Paper Stipend of $500
Annual Scholarly Paper Competition in the field of Opera
The National Opera Association is pleased to announce its Twenty-seventh Scholarly Papers Competition, 2011, for outstanding scholarly papers on operatic subjects.
Scholarly investigation is indispensable to the field of opera, especially as a basis for production and performance.
Eligibility
The competition is open to any interested author. Membership in NOA is not required.
Previous winners of this competition may not re-apply, but are strongly encouraged to submit articles for consideration to The Opera Journal, an NOA publication.
Awards
The winner will be invited to read her/his paper during the Scholarly Papers Session at the annual convention in January, 2012, in Memphis. The Leland Fox Scholarly Paper Stipend of $500 will be awarded to the reader of a winning paper at the annual convention.
The winning paper will be published in The Opera Journal.
Guidelines
The scholarly paper should explore an operatic subject, present significant research and conclusions, and include an extensive bibliography citing primary, secondary and, if applicable, tertiary sources. Authors should follow these guidelines:
* The paper must be typewritten, double-spaced, no more than 3000 words in length.
* The paper’s title, the name of its author, address, telephone, and email information should be provided on a detachable title page. The author’s name should not appear on subsequent pages.
* Only one submission per person is admissible and must be accompanied by a statement confirming that the paper is not under copyright by any party other than the author and that it has not been previously published.
* Papers previously presented orally are eligible as long as they have not or will not be published in any proceedings.
* Papers will be judged particularly for significant advances in research and conclusions that shed new light on an operatic topic dealing with music drama, the libretto, the history of the genre, etc.
* Topics may be as broad as the field of opera itself, which includes historical and theoretical analysis of the music and libretto (along lines of current and past critical theory and translation thereof), singing, acting, costuming, stagecraft, theater, etc.
* The jury will consider the clarity and quality of the writing, judge the acceptability of the paper for publication in The Opera Journal, and will also rate papers on their overall suitability to be read in an abridged version of no more than twenty minutes length at the convention’s Scholarly Papers Session.
Application Process
No registration fee is required. Deadline for submission: May 30, 2012.
Author notification: after September 1, 2012.
There is no application fee for the competition. Submission may be by mail or email attachment. Be sure to provide complete contact information (mailing address, email address, phone) with all submissions.
Papers will not be returned. Submit a completed application form (available as a Word document or PDF form) along with the paper, and any inquiries about the competition to:
National Opera Association
Robert Hansen, Executive Director
e-mail: rhansen@noa.org
PO Box 60869
Canyon, TX 79016-0869