This collection of essays explores the relationship between opera and the development of media technology from the late 19th to the early 21st century. Taking an international perspective, the contributing authors, each with extensive experience as scholars or practitioners of the art, cover a variety of topics including audio, video and film recording, contemporary critical responses, popular and "high brow" culture, live and recorded performance, lighting and performance technology, media marketing and advertising.
This collection of essays explores the relationship between opera and the development of media technology from the late 19th to the early 21st century...
The 1916 silent film Cenere (Ashes) features the great Italian actress Eleonora Duse (1858-1924) in her only cinematic role. In her meditative approach to her craft, she reprised for the screen all the "mother roles" she had created for the theater. Marking the film's 100th anniversary, this collection of essays brings together for the first time in English a range of scholarship. The difficulties involved in the making of the film are explored--Duse's perfectionism was too advanced for the Italian movie industry of the 1910s. Her work is discussed within the creative, political and...
The 1916 silent film Cenere (Ashes) features the great Italian actress Eleonora Duse (1858-1924) in her only cinematic role. In her meditative ...
Explores the many and varied ways in which composers have been depicted on the cinema screen. Beginning with some of the very earliest silent films examples, these essays range in subject from the 12th century abbess, Hildegard of Bingen, through the great classical and romantic eras of Verdi, Wagner, Berlioz and Strauss, up to the 20th century, and Elgar, Delius, Gershwin and Blitzstein.
Explores the many and varied ways in which composers have been depicted on the cinema screen. Beginning with some of the very earliest silent films ex...
This edited collection of essays details a wide-ranging selection of some of the most sensationally successful theatre productions of the long Victorian era, the real "blockbusters" of the age. Ranging from the world of operetta and music hall to spectacular drama and sensational melodrama, the productions included provide the reader with definitive proof that the phenomenon of the "smash hit" show is not restricted to modern Broadway.This is a world that encompassed the ground-breaking stage technology of Ben Hur, the wide political impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin and the sheer creative...
This edited collection of essays details a wide-ranging selection of some of the most sensationally successful theatre productions of the long Victori...
Stanislavsky and Pedagogy explores current thinking around the pedagogical implications of Stanislavsky’s work, depicting the voices of a number of practitioners, teachers, and scholars who are themselves journeying with Stanislavsky.
Stanislavsky and Pedagogy explores current thinking around the pedagogical implications of Stanislavsky’s work, depicting the voices of a number of...
Stanislavsky and Pedagogy explores current thinking around the pedagogical implications of Stanislavsky’s work, depicting the voices of a number of practitioners, teachers, and scholars who are themselves journeying with Stanislavsky.
Stanislavsky and Pedagogy explores current thinking around the pedagogical implications of Stanislavsky’s work, depicting the voices of a number of...
