Full Description
This collection of essays explores the relationship between opera and the development of media technology from the late 19th to the early 21st century. Taking an international perspective, the contributing authors, each with extensive experience as scholars or practitioners of the art, cover a variety of topics including audio, video and film recording, contemporary critical responses, popular and "high brow" culture, live and recorded performance, lighting and performance technology, media marketing and advertising.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Business of Opera: Opera, Advertising and the Return to Popular Culture (Paul Fryer)
Making Culture Popular: Opera and the Media Industries (Sam O'Connell)
Opera Criticism: State of the Art and Beyond (Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe)
Gods and Heroes or Monsters of the Media? (Trevor Siemens)
Opera and the Audio Recording Industry (Robert Cannon)
Opera Singers as Pop Stars: Opera Within the Popular Music Industry (Christopher Newell and George Newell)
Cross-Cuts and Arias: The Language of Film and Its Impact on Opera (Kevin Stephens)
Opera on Optical Video Disc, or the Latest (and Final?) Avatar of the Gesamtkunstwerk (Pierre Bellemare)
Wunderkammer: Light as a Scenographic and Dramaturgical Tool in Opera (Hansjörg Schmidt)
Opera, Art and Industrial Production: Lighting at the Royal Opera House, London (Nick Hunt)
After The Twilight of the Gods: Opera Experiments, New Media and the Opera of the Future (Michael Earley)
About the Contributors
Index
