Communication

Opera and the student public: how to foster encounters?

This two-way communication will focus on a “school survey” conducted by students and supervisors of the Master’s “Music Mediation” at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, about the relationship between students from Toulouse at the Théâtre du Capitole, an operatic and choreographic institution. The observation established by the sponsors is that of great difficulty in forging these links, which nevertheless constitute an essential issue within one of the first university towns in France.

Conducted by master students who belong to the social group studied, the survey aims to make the sponsors aware of the representations of public (and non-public) students. Its restitution takes the original form of sound capsules, constructed from the material of the interviews. The ambition is to participate in reducing misunderstandings, the gaps between representations. In addition to the presentation of the premises and results of this survey, it will also be examined from a pedagogical angle, given its formative purposes.

Biography

Florence Mouchet has been a lecturer at the University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès since 2000, and a member of the LLA-CREATIS research team. His research focuses mainly on the processes of reuse and inter-musicality in medieval secular lyrics, musical representations and the role of the image in the manuscript text, as well as, more recently, on the theoretical literature associating music and medicine in the Middle Ages.

Since 2020, she has been in charge of the master’s course in Music Mediation, in the context of which she works in particular with researchers in the sociology of culture and in information and communication sciences.