Between Opera and Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Between Opera and Cinema write by Jeongwon Joe. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Between Opera and Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Leading scholars of opera and film explore the many ways these two seemingly unrelated genres have come together from the silent-film era to today.
Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater
Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater write by Nina Penner. This book was released on 2020-10-06. Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater is the first systematic exploration of how sung forms of drama tell stories. Through examples from opera's origins to contemporary musicals, Nina Penner examines the roles of character-narrators and how they differ from those in literary and cinematic works, how music can orient spectators to characters' points of view, how being privy to characters' inner thoughts and feelings may evoke feelings of sympathy or empathy, and how performers' choices affect not only who is telling the story but what story is being told. Unique about Penner's approach is her engagement with current work in analytic philosophy. Her study reveals not only the resources this philosophical tradition can bring to musicology but those which musicology can bring to philosophy, challenging and refining accounts of narrative, point of view, and the work-performance relationship within both disciplines. She also considers practical problems singers and directors confront on a daily basis, such as what to do about Wagner's Jewish caricatures and the racism of Orientalist operas. More generally, Penner reflects on how centuries-old works remain meaningful to contemporary audiences and have the power to attract new, more diverse audiences to opera and musical theater. By exploring how practitioners past and present have addressed these issues, Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater offers suggestions for how opera and musical theater can continue to entertain and enrich the lives of 21st-century audiences.
Opera on Film
Opera on Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Opera on Film write by Richard Fawkes. This book was released on 2000. Opera on Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This fascinating study of opera within the history of cinema, charts the great film makers's obsession with this most glamorous medium and its stars
Opera as Soundtrack
Opera as Soundtrack - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Opera as Soundtrack write by Jeongwon Joe. This book was released on 2016-05-13. Opera as Soundtrack available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Filmmakers' fascination with opera dates back to the silent era but it was not until the late 1980s that critical enquiries into the intersection of opera and cinema began to emerge. Jeongwon Joe focusses primarily on the role of opera as soundtrack by exploring the distinct effects opera produces in film, effects which differ from other types of soundtrack music, such as jazz or symphony. These effects are examined from three perspectives: peculiar qualities of the operatic voice; various properties commonly associated with opera, such as excess, otherness or death; and multifaceted tensions between opera and cinema - for instance, opera as live, embodied, high art and cinema as technologically mediated, popular entertainment. Joe argues that when opera excerpts are employed on soundtracks they tend to appear at critical moments of the film, usually associated with the protagonists, and the author explores why it is opera, not symphony or jazz, that accompanies poignant scenes like these. Joe's film analysis focuses on the time period of the post-1970s, which is distinguished by an increase of opera excerpts on soundtracks to blockbuster titles, the commercial recognition of which promoted the production of numerous opera soundtrack CDs in the following years. Joe incorporates an empirical methodology by examining primary sources such as production files, cue-sheets and unpublished interviews with film directors and composers to enhance the traditional hermeneutic approach. The films analysed in her book include Woody Allen’s Match Point, David Cronenberg’s M. Butterfly, and Wong Kar-wai’s 2046.
Vocal Apparitions
Vocal Apparitions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vocal Apparitions write by Michal Grover-Friedlander. This book was released on 2005-02-27. Vocal Apparitions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cinema and opera have become intertwined in a variety of powerful and unusual ways. Vocal Apparitions tells the story of this fascinating intersection, interprets how it occurred, and explores what happens when opera is projected onto the medium of film. Michal Grover-Friedlander finds striking affinities between film and opera--from Lon Chaney's classic silent film, The Phantom of the Opera, to the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera to Fellini's E la nave va. One of the guiding questions of this book is what occurs when what is aesthetically essential about one medium is transposed into the aesthetic field of the other. For example, Grover-Friedlander's comparison of an opera by Poulenc and a Rossellini film, both based on Cocteau's play The Human Voice, shows the relation of the vocal and the visual to be surprisingly affected by the choice of the medium. Her analysis of the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera demonstrates how, as a response to opera's infatuation with death, cinema comically acts out a correction of opera's fate. Grover-Friedlander argues that filmed operas such as Zeffirelli's Otello and Friedrich's Falstaff show the impossibility of a direct transformation of the operatic into the cinematic. Paradoxically, cinema at times can be more operatic than opera itself, thus capturing something essential that escapes opera's self-understanding. A remarkable look at how cinema has been haunted--and transformed--by opera, Vocal Apparitions reveals something original and important about each medium.
