Opera in the Media Age: Essays on Art, Technology and Popular Culture

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• The Business of Opera: Opera, Advertising and the Return to Popular Culture (Paul Fryer)
• Making Culture Popular: Opera and the Media Industries (Sam ­O’Connell)
• Opera Criticism: State of the Art and Beyond (Daniel ­Meyer-Dinkgräfe)
• Gods and Heroes or Monsters of the Media? (Trevor Siemens)
• Opera and the Audio Recording Industry (Robert Cannon)
• Opera Singers as Pop Stars: Opera Within the Popular Music Industry (Christopher Newell and George Newell)
• Cross-Cuts and Arias: The Language of Film and Its Impact on Opera (Kevin Stephens)
• Opera on Optical Video Disc, or the Latest (and Final?) Avatar of the Gesamtkunstwerk (Pierre Bellemare)
• Wunderkammer: Light as a Scenographic and Dramaturgical Tool in Opera (Hansjörg Schmidt)
• Opera, Art and Industrial Production: Lighting at the Royal Opera House, London (Nick Hunt)
• After The Twilight of the Gods: Opera Experiments, New Media and the Opera of the Future (Michael Earley)
• About the Contributors
• Index