CULTURAL PROGRAM
1 September 2026
Teatro Palladium Roma Tre University
Piazza Bartolomeo Romano, 8 | Rome
“Thinking Music into the Present”
Vladimir Stoupel, Berlin / Baltimore
PROGRAMME:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) / Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924)
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847)
Variations sérieuses, op. 54
Hans von Bülow (1830–1894)
Rimembranze dell’opera “Un Ballo in maschera” by Giuseppe Verdi, op. 17
Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
Concert Paraphrase on “Rigoletto” by Giuseppe Verdi (1860)
Mephisto Waltz No. 1
Vladimir Stoupel, piano
A powerful concert performance is always radically present: it unfolds in absolute immediacy before the eyes and ears of the audience. But how should we understand works that were composed more than a hundred years ago? In what sense are they still present today — and how can they be brought into the present?
In his lecture-recital, pianist Vladimir Stoupel explores how music originating from a past historical era can, through interpretation, become music of the present. Such interpretation is the sine qua non of a genuine and inspiring concert experience. The same holds true for Hegel’s philosophy: his ideas become present only through continual interpretation. As in music, meaning does not arise in a museum-like preservation of the past, but in a living performance, here and now.
Vladimir Stoupel emigrated from Moscow to Paris in 1984 and quickly established himself on the international concert scene. Since then, numerous solo recitals and concerts have taken him to major musical centers throughout Europe and the United States. As a soloist, he has appeared repeatedly with ensembles such as the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, among others. He has been a French citizen since 1985. In 2022, he became a Knight of the French order Chevalier des Arts et des Letters, and in 2024 he received an honorary doctorate (Doctor honoris causa) from the Georgian Technical University. He is an honorary member of the International Hegel Society.
ESTHER HAAS
PROGRAMME:
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1957)
Neue Liebe, neues Leben (2‘)
Suleika (3‘)
Andres Maienlied / Hexenlied (3‘)
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Zur Rosenzeit (2‘)
Alessandro Parisotti (1853-1913)
« Se tu m’ami » (3‘)
Georg Friedrich Haendel (1685-1759)
« Tornami a vagheggiar » (5‘)
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Intermission
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Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816)
« Nel cor più non mi sento » (3‘)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Batti batti (4‘)
Dans un bois solitaire (3‘)
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1824)
Après un rêve (3‘)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Die Junge Nonne (4‘)
Lied der Anne Lyle (3‘)
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
« Qual vita », « che fiero momento » (5‘)
Of Franco-German origin, soprano Esther Haas (18) demonstrates a path marked by excellence and early vocal maturity. After initial training through private lessons and participation in various choirs, she joined at the age of 12 the prestigious children’s choir of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin. This immersion at the heart of the lyrical elite allowed her to quickly perform in leading international productions such as Puccini’s Turandot and La Bohème, Bizet’s Carmen, and Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier.
Alongside her stage experience, at 14 she joined the Julius Stern Institute of the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), where she refined her skills in Regina Schudel’s class. Her talent was recognized in 2023 with the National Prize (Bundespreis) at the “Jugend musiziert” competition. Supported by excellence scholarships from the Europäischer Freundeskreis and the Prade Foundation, she regularly performs in prestigious recitals, notably for the Deutsche Rheumaliga e.V. and the Sternstunde musical mornings. Graduating from high school in 2025, Esther Haas will begin her Bachelor of Music in September 2026, continuing a promising trajectory on the European classical stage.
Forgotten Mediations Exhibition
by Mohaddeseh Rabbaninia
1-7 September 2026
Foyer of the Aula Magna of the
FILCOSPE Department – Roma Tre University, Via Ostiense 234/236
curated by Francesca Iannelli, Chiara Magni, Gioia Sili
The works of Iranian artist Mohaddesh Rabbaninia explore the complex relationship between femininity and collective narratives, as well as the ambiguous interaction between memory and the destructive work of history. The term ‘mediations’, which appears in the title, is borrowed from Hegelian philosophy, which forms the backdrop to the Bildungsprozess explored in the exhibition. Through the decomposition and recomposition of images, Rabbaninia’s works deconstruct traditional visual paradigms, questioning the mimetic principle.
In this context, it is possible to find an original affinity with the female figure, which arises precisely from the decomposition and recomposition of subjectivity: the assemblage, the authentic inspiration behind the Iranian artist’s work, allows us to evoke the unheard voices and powers of women, such as Angelica Catalani, Fanny Mendelssohn, Sophie Mereau, Christiane Hegel, Meta Forkel-Liebeskind and Susanna Maria von Tucher. In line with the theme of the event, and inspired by the philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel, Rabbaninia’s works transcend physical representation to delve into the essence of these extraordinary women and their contribution to the Hegelian constellation of the feminine, explored collectively in the project ‘Hegelian Constellations of the Feminine: A Hyper-Archive for an Inclusive Bildung’ (PRIN 2023-2026), in collaboration with Samsung Electronics Italia (see link: https://hegel-femhab.org/il-progetto/).
The exhibition raises various themes and issues (narratives, rights, history, art, women’s emancipation), in the belief that the complexity of reality cannot be adequately understood without the mediation of images. The exhibition therefore forms a bridge between aesthetics, Hegelian philosophy and social processes, in line with the inclusive and interdisciplinary vocation of the Hegel Global conference, to offer a space for open and accessible discussion to conference participants, citizens, the student community and local schools, contributing to the dissemination of interdisciplinary research conducted at the Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts (in particular in the Phil-Art 2026 Project).
Some of the works on display here were in fact created in Italy during a six-month visiting period at Roma Tre University by Mohaddeseh Rabbaninia, a PhD student in philosophy at the University of Isfahan in Iran and, at the same time, a young artist who has participated in group exhibitions in Dubai, Moscow, Tehran and New York, and has exhibited several times in Rome with two solo exhibitions, The Art of Mediation (2024) and Forgotten Stars (2025).
Mohaddeseh Rabbaninia (Maha) is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Isfahan, Iran, specializing in the philosophy of art and aesthetics. She wrote her master’s thesis on Hegelian aesthetics and has published several articles on Greek tragedies, including Antigone , reinterpreted through a Hegelian lens.
Her doctoral thesis is titled Expression of Emotions in Art: A Philosophical Explanation .
In addition to her academic interests, Rabbaninia is a painter who has participated in various exhibitions, including international cultural and artistic events in Iran, Italy, Russia, and the United States.