When Opera Meets 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 When Opera Meets Film write by Marcia J. Citron. This book was released on 2010-05-27. When Opera Meets Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Opera can reveal something fundamental about a film, and film can do the same for an opera, argues Marcia J. Citron. Structured by the categories of Style, Subjectivity, and Desire, this volume advances our understanding of the aesthetics of the opera/film encounter. Case studies of a diverse array of important repertoire including mainstream film, opera-film, and postmodernist pastiche are presented. Citron uses Werner Wolf's theory of intermediality to probe the roles of opera and film when they combine. The book also refines and expands film-music functions, and details the impact of an opera's musical style on the meaning of a film. Drawing on cinematic traditions of Hollywood, France, and Britain, the study explores Coppola's Godfather trilogy, Jewison's Moonstruck, Nichols's Closer, Chabrol's La Cérémonie, Schlesinger's Sunday, Bloody Sunday, Boyd's Aria, and Ponnelle's opera-films.
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
Encyclopedia of Opera on Screen
Encyclopedia of Opera on Screen - 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 Encyclopedia of Opera on Screen write by Ken Wlaschin. This book was released on 2004. Encyclopedia of Opera on Screen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “This wondrous encyclopedia is an invaluable boon to all movie and opera buffs. I shall be referring to it frequently to slake my curiosity and to settle bets.”--Tom Lehrer This bountiful book is a comprehensive guide to the thousands of films, DVDs, and videocassettes featuring operas and opera singers from 1896 to the present. From ABC Television to Franco Zeffirelli, the encyclopedia is a storehouse of fascinating information for film and opera aficionados and casual browsers alike. Find answers to such questions as: * What were the first operas filmed? * Why did they make silent films of operas? * Why was a pseudo-opera written for Citizen Kane? * What was the title of Maria Callas’s only film? Organized alphabetically with more than 1,900 fully cross-referenced entries, the book casts a wide net that covers not only expected topics--operas, operettas, zarzuelas, composers, singers, conductors, writers, and film directors--but also the unexpected and offbeat--animated opera, first operas on film, puppet opera films, silent films about opera, and many other lesser-known topics. Encyclopedia of Opera on Screen illuminates the many intersections between opera and film as never before.
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.
Muppets Meet the Classics: the Phantom of the Opera
Muppets Meet the Classics: the Phantom of the Opera - 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 Muppets Meet the Classics: the Phantom of the Opera write by Gaston Leroux. This book was released on 2017. Muppets Meet the Classics: the Phantom of the Opera available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Leroux's classic tale of love, intrigue, and jealousy at the Paris Opera House is reimagined with the cast of the Muppets. Readers can join Kermit, Miss Piggy, Uncle Deadly, and the other Muppets as they bring this gripping tale to life in their own hilarious way.
