Opera and Video: Technology and Spectatorship

ISBN-13: 9783034305426 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 187 str.

McGregor, Andrew

Opis

The contributions in this volume reflect the efforts of musicology to understand a hybrid area with a fascinating evolution. They aim to address the relationship between opera and audiovisual technology from its origins to today by offering the results of a balanced critical and innovative approach. The reader interested in opera, aesthetics, narrative or transmediality will find concrete approaches devoted to an unexplored diversity of aspects with an impact on the narrative conditions in which we watch opera on screen. The variety of perspectives shows how original methodological approaches are able to design a new map of the main transmedial problems of opera in TV, DVD and even in phonography. The book offers not only isolated theoretical contributions but seeks a connection of them with significant practice oriented approaches coming from the fields of video direction and composition.

Spis treści

Contents: Héctor J. Pérez: Introduction - Gabriela Cruz: The Fairy Tale of Bel Canto: Walt Disney, Theodor Adorno, Kurt Weill Play the Gramophone - Emanuele Senici: Opera on Italian Television: The First Thirty Years, 1954-1984 - Delphine Vincent: « Temps Spatialisé »: Opera Relays and the Sense of Temporality - Gaia Varon: Overtures on Screen - Jaume Radigales: Playback Problems when Filming Opera for the Screen: Two Case Studies - Áine Sheil: The Opera Director's Voice: DVD 'Extras' and the Question of Authority - José M. Sánchez-Verdú: Composing in New Synaesthetic and Interdisciplinary Spaces: Libro de las estancias (Book of Abodes) as a Musical, Architectural and Visual Installation Proposal.

O autorze

Héctor J. Pérez is Associate Professor of Audiovisual Communication and Aesthetics and a member of the Technology and Information Research Team, CALSI, at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Among his main publications on Opera are «Shakespeare jenseits des Dramas» (1998); El Nacimiento de la tragedia. Un ensayo sobre la metafísica del artista en el joven Nietzsche (2001); «Opera Narratives: From Mythology to Audiovisual Aesthetics» (2006); Expression in the Performing Arts (2010); «Una estética audiovisual de Electra» (2010).