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Author: Richard Fawkes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fascinating study of opera within the history of cinema, charts the great film makers's obsession with this most glamorous medium and its stars
Author: Marcia J. Citron
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-05-27
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1139489631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOpera 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.
Author: Ken Wlaschin
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 872
ISBN-13: 9780300102635
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“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.
Author: Jeremy Tambling
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780719022388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David P. Schroeder
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Published: 2020
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ISBN-13: 9781474291408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe allure of opera to cinema early in the century held up through the silent era, into sound films, through the golden age of movies and into the most recent approaches to cinema. This book explores the many different ways that this has happened.
Author: Ken Wlaschin
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 648
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a guide in book form and on CD-ROM to the thousands of films and videos featuring operas and opera singers in the last one hundred years. The guide has been organized alphabetically as an encyclopedia with entries on operas, operettas, zarzuelas, singers, composers, writers, conductors and subjects of interest. Special subject entries include animated opera, best opera on film, best operetta on film, castratos, divas, directors of opera on film, directors of opera on TV, filmmakers on stage, first operas on film, first operas on TV, imaginary operas in films, operas and operettas about the movies, operas as movies, operas based on movies, operetta, puppet opera, silent films about opera, silent films of operas, television operas, vitaphone opera films, voice of firestone, worst opera on film, worst operetta on film, zarzuelas. [from Introduction]
Author: Joseph Attard
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2022-06-16
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1501370340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince 2006, leading opera companies have beamed their shows to thousands of cinema screens all over the world – live. 'Opera cinema' is the most successful marriage of this elaborate, esoteric artform and the silver screen. In the twenty-first century, more people watch opera on cinema screens than the stage. But what is different about watching Massenet at the multiplex, compared to a traditional stage performance? Is opera cinema a new, hybrid artform in its own right, or merely a new way of engaging with an old one? Is it bringing new opera fans into the fold? Is there a danger it could one day eclipse the stage altogether? This book deals with these questions by charting the history of opera transmissions, exploring how digital media changes our relationship with culture and inviting a group of 'opera virgins' to give their impressions on this developing cultural experience.
Author: Caterina Napoleone
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780810996816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDVD-ROM features of accompanying DVD contain ... "PDF files of comprehensive cast lists and reviews of Zeffirelli's work."--Page 512
Author: Jeongwon Joe
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1136534075
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeading scholars of opera and film explore the many ways these two seemingly unrelated genres have come together from the silent-film era to today.
Author: Michal Grover-Friedlander
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2005-02-27
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780691120089
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCinema 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.
