Name and surname | doc. Mgr. Vladimír Zvara, PhD. |
Document type: | Research/art/teacher profile of a person |
The name of the university | Comenius University Bratislava |
The seat of the university | Šafárikovo námestie 6, 818 06 Bratislava |
The name of the faculty | Faculty of Arts |
The seat of the faculty | Gondova 2, 81102 Bratislava |
III.a - Occupation-position | III.b - Institution | III.c - Duration |
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Literary Advisor | Slovak National Theatre – Opera | 1996 – 2015 |
Researcher, Deputy Director | Institute of Musicology, Slovak Academy of Sciences | 1998 – 2001 |
Assistant Professor | Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Arts | 2002 – 2005 |
Associate Professor (docent) | Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Arts | 2005 – |
IV.a - Activity description, course name, other | IV.b - Name of the institution | IV.c - Year |
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Complementary studies in education | Academy of Fine Arts, Prague | 1992 |
German and English courses | Vienna University | 1998 |
AiS2 Academic Information System | Comenius University in Bratislava | 2002 |
Online teaching course | Comenius University in Bratislava | 2020 |
V.1.a - Name of the profile course | V.1.b - Study programme | V.1.c - Degree | V.1.d - Field of study |
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Introduction to Musicology | Musicology, Ethnology | I | Theory and History of Art and Culture, Historical Sciences |
Proseminar | Musicology | I | Theory and History of Art and Culture |
19th Century Music | Musicology | I | Theory and History of Art and Culture |
History of Opera and Music Theatre | Musicology | II | Theory and History of Art and Culture |
History of Music - Overview 2 | Musicology, Ethnology | I | Theory and History of Art and Culture, Historical Sciences |
Doctoral Seminar | Arts Studies | III | Theory and History of Art and Culture |
V.2.a - Name of the study programme | V.2.b - Degree | V.2.c - Field of study |
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Musicology | I | Theory and History of Art and Culture |
Musicology | II | Theory and History of Art and Culture |
Arts Studies | III | Theory and History of Art and Culture |
V.5.a - Name of the course | V.5.b - Study programme | V.5.c - Degree | V.5.d - Field of study |
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Thesis Seminar | Musicology | I | Theory and History of Art and Culture |
Dissertation Project Seminar | Arts Studies | III | Theory and History of Art and Culture |
Zvara, Vladimír : Ján Cikker : Vzkriesenie. Genéza, osudy a interpretácia operného diela/Auferstehung. Entstehung, Wirkung und Interpretation der Oper. - Bratislava: VEDA, 2000. - 342 p. - ISBN 80-224-0619-8
Zvara, Vladimír : "Werk und Kommentar : zur Interpretation eigener Werke bei Strauss und
Hofmannsthal". In: Richard Strauss und die Moderne. - Berlin: Henschel Verlag, 2001. - pp. 139-
151 - ISBN 3-89487-372-8
Zvara, Vladimír : "Paul Hindemiths Cardillac zwischen Expressionismus und deutscher
Händelrenaissance". In: Hudební věda, Vol. 41, No. 1-2 (2004). - pp. 95-106 - SCOPUS
Zvara, Vladimír : "Leoš Janáček and the ´Slavic catharsis´". In: International Review of the
Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, Vol. 43, No. 1 (2012). - p. 23-34 - WoS
Zvara, Vladimír : "Auf der Suche nach dem Sinn der Oper : die ´untote´ Kunstgattung in der Stadt Bratislava". In: Musiktheater in Raum und Zeit : Beiträge zur Geschichte der
Theaterpraxis in Mitteleuropa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert = Hudobné divadlo v priestore a
čase : príspevky k dejinám divadelnej praxe v strednej Európe v 19. a 20. storočí (ed. Vladimír Zvara). - Bratislava : NM CODE, 2015. - pp. 219-242. - ISBN 978-80-89484-05-8
Zvara, Vladimír : Nová doba : premeny hudobného života v Bratislave po druhej svetovej vojne [New age : the transformation of Bratislava's musical life in the post-war year]. In: Malé osobnosti veľkých dejín - veľké osobnosti malých dejín : Hudba v Bratislave : príspevky k hudobnej regionalistike : Roč. 6. - Bratislava : Slovenská muzikologická asociácia, 2021. - S. 272-289. - ISBN 978-80-8060-505-6 - https://www.snm.sk/swift_data/source/sidelna_budova/2021/muzea_web/hum/zbornik/Prinos%20svetovych%20osobnosti%20v%20kontexte%20historickych%20parkov%20a%20tradicia%20pestovania%20ruzi%20v%20Dolnej%20Krupej.pdf
Zvara, Vladimír : "He has lifted the Iron Curtain : Reflections on Ján Cikker's Literaturopern and their reception". In: Studia musicologica, Vol. 59, No. 3-4 (2018). - pp. 345-363. - ISSN (print) 1788-6244 - WoS, SCOPUS
Bohlman, Andrea F. (25%) - Motyčka, Peter (25%) - Zagorski, Marcus (25%) - Zvara, Vladimír (25%) : "Music and Cultural Opposition". In: The Handbook of COURAGE : Cultural Opposition and Its Heritage in Eastern Europe (ed. Sándor Horváth). - Budapest : Történettudományi Intézet, 2018. - pp. 289-306. - ISBN 978-963-416-142-4
Zvara, Vladimír : "Constructing the past and the future of Slovak music : Dobroslav Orel in
interwar Bratislava". In: Historický časopis, Vol. 69, No. 5 (2021). - pp. 921-939. - ISSN (print) 0018-2575, ISSN (online) 2585-9099 - SCOPUS
Zvara, Vladimír : "Das Private und das Öffentliche Opferfiguren in den drei ersten Opern
Bedřich Smetanas". In: Opfermythen in Zentraleuropa (eds. László Levente Balogh - Christoph Leitgeb). - Wien : Praesens Verlag, 2021. - pp. 143-154. - ISBN 978-3-7069-1109-2
Zvara, Vladimír : "Zum Problem der inneren Handlung in den Operntexten Hugo von Hofmannsthals". In: Richard Strauss-Blätter, Vol. 34 (1995), pp. 121-134. - ISSN 0720-9827
- [o3] 2000 Walter, M.: Richard Strauss und zeine Zeit. Laaber : Laaber-Verlag, 2000, p. 463
Zvara, Vladimír : Ján Cikker : Vzkriesenie. Genéza, osudy a interpretácia operného
diela/Auferstehung. Entstehung, Wirkung und Interpretation der Oper. - Bratislava : Veda,
2000. - 342 pp. - ISBN 80-224-0619-8
- [o5] 2002 Gojowy, D.: V. Zvara: "Ján Cikker : Auferstehung. Entstehung, Wirkung und
Interpretation der Oper. Rezension". In: Die Musikforschung, Vol. 55, No. 5, 2002, pp. 217-218. -
WoS
Zvara, Vladimír : "Ján Cikker und Fritz Oeser : zur Geschichte einer Verschwiegenen
künstlerischen Zusammenarbeit". In: Musicologica Istropolitana 5. - Bratislava : Stimul, 2006. -
pp. 87-98. - ISBN 978-80-89236-18-3
- [o3] 2010 Corbellari, A.: Les mots sous les notes : Musicologie littéraire et poétique musicale
dans l`oeuvre de Romain Rolland. Geneve : Librairie Droz S. A., 2010, p. 357.
Zvara, Vladimír : "Leoš Janáček and the ´Slavic catharsis´". In: International Review of the
Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, Vol. 43, No. 1 (2012), pp. 23-34. - ISSN 0351-5796 - WoS
- [o1] 2016 Zapletal, M.: "Proměny a konstanty Helfertova psaní o Janáčkovi". In: Musicologica
Brunensia, Vol. 51, No. 2, 2016, p. 271 - SCOPUS
Zvara, Vladimír : "Auf der Suche nach dem Sinn der Oper : die ´untote´ Kunstgattung in der Stadt Bratislava". In: Musiktheater in Raum und Zeit : Beiträge zur Geschichte der
Theaterpraxis in Mitteleuropa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert = Hudobné divadlo v priestore a
čase : príspevky k dejinám divadelnej praxe v strednej Európe v 19. a 20. storočí (ed. Vladimír Zvara). - Bratislava : NM CODE, 2015. - pp. 219-242. - ISBN 978-80-89484-05-8
- [o3] 2017 Tyrrell, J.: "Musiktheater in Raum und Zeit : Beiträge zur Geschichte der
Theaterpraxis in Mitteleuropa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (ed. V. Zvara). Review". In: Music & letters, Vol. 98, No. 3, 2017, pp. 487-488 - WoS
COURAGE - Cultural Opposition: Understanding the Cultural Heritage of Dissent in the Former
Socialist Countries. Horizon 2020 (project No. 692919; 2016 – 2019). National Task Manager
(Slovakia).
Music in Bratislava. APVV (project No. 14-0681; 2014 – 2019). Member of team.
Music Theatre in Bratislava 1850 – 1950 (Personalities, Institutions, Repertory, Appreciation). VEGA (project No. 2/0040/18; 2018 – 2021). Member of team.
Slovak Opera as an Artistic and Cultural Phenomenon. VEGA (project No. 1/0914/15; 2015 – 2018). Project leader.
VII.a - Activity, position | VII.b - Name of the institution, board | VII.c - Duration |
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Vice Dean for Research and Postgraduate Studies | Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Arts | 2019 – 2023 |
Vice Chair of the Scientific Board of the Faculty | Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Arts | 2019 – |
Head of the Musicology Department | Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Arts | 2007 – 2019 |
Evaluator of research organizations in Czech Republic | Czech Government (RVVI) | 2018 – 2021 |
Evaluator of a new study programme | Masaryk University, Brno | 2018 – 2019 |
Evaluator of research institutes (social sciences) | Czech Academy of Sciences | 2015 |
Subject area board member - Musicology, Ph.D. study programme | Charles University, Prague, Faculty of Arts | 2013 – |
Editorial board member: Musicologica Brunensia (SCOPUS, ESCI) | Masaryk University, Brno | 2008 – |
Subject area board member - Musicology, Theory and History of Art and Culture, Ph.D. study programme | Academy of Fine Arts, Bratislava | 2015 – |
VIII.a - Name of the institution | VIII.b - Address of the institution | VIII.c - Duration (indicate the duration of stay) | VIII.d - Mobility scheme, employment contract, other (describe) |
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Universität Bayreuth, Forschungsinstitut für Musiktheater/Research Institute of Music Theatre | Thurnau, Germany | September 1994 – June 1996; September – December 2000 | DAAD - research and teaching of three semestral courses at the Bayreuth University |
Universität Wien | Vienna | September 1997 –July 1998 | Vienna University Fellowship for a young scholar nominated by a Herder Prize laureate (Prof. Oskár Elschek) |
Institute of Musicology, Faculty of Arts of the Charles University | Prague | October – December 2004 | Teaching of one semestral course at the Charles University |
Paul Sacher Stiftung | Basel | September – December 2007 | Research Fellowship of the Paul Sacher Foundation (research on Igor Stravinsky´s manuscripts) |
Institut für Kulturwissenschaften und Theatergeschichte ÖAW/Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History of the Austrian Academy of Sciences | Vienna | May 17, 2018 | Invited lecture ("Jour fixe") |
Karl-Franzens-Universität, Geisteswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Institut für Musikwissenschaft | Graz | November 22, 2018 | Invited lecture |
Department of Musicology, Faculty of Arts of the Palacky University | Olomouc, Czech Republic | two 5-day stays 2012, 2019 | Erasmus |
Peer reviewer of project proposals for scientific agencies: VEGA, KEGA, GAČR.
Member of project evaluation boards of the Slovak Ministry of Culture, of the Slovak Arts Council and of Bratislava Region.
Member of: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für die Musikgeschichte in Mittel- und Osteuropa (Leipzig), The Antonín Dvořák Society for Czech and Slovak Music (London).
Literary advisor responsible for numerous opera productions at the Slovak National Theatre, including outstanding productions of Slovak operas (E. Suchoň: Krútňava / Whirlpool, 1999; M. Burlas: Kóma, 2007).
Cooperation with the German stage director Peter Konwitschny - literary advisor for his productions of: L. Janáček: From the House of Dead (Oper Zürich/Wiener Staatsoper, 2011), Her Stepdaughter (Oper Graz/Oper Augsburg, 2014), The Makropulos Case (Slovak National Theatre, 2015).