Opera as Hypermedium: Meaning-Making, Immediacy, and the Politics of Perception

ISBN-13: 9780190091262 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 200 str.

Tereza Havelková

Recenzje

Starting from the premise that opera is always already a hypermediated art form, this is a very timely examination of the use of new media in operatic production to unsettle the established media hierarchies of opera. The investigation employs considerable theoretical sophistication to offer new ways of thinking critically and politically about the implications of new media for the forms of opera today, positing a 'politics of perception' beyond the more familiar politics of representation.

O autorze

Tereza Havelková is Assistant Professor in musicology at Charles University in Prague. Her research concentrates on contemporary relationships between opera and the media, and the intersection of aesthetics and politics in opera and music theatre both present and past. She is the co-convenor of the Music Theatre Working Group with the International Federation for Theatre Research.