Technology and the Diva - Sopranos, Opera, and Media From Romanticism to the Digital Age

Klappentext Focuses on the operatic soprano as the diva and her relationships with technology from the 1820s to the digital age. Zusammenfassung Focusing on the operatic soprano and her relationships with technology from the 1820s to the twenty-first-century digital age! this book considers how the 'diva's' voice and allure have been created by technologies and media such as theatrical stagecraft! journalism! and the simulcast. Inhaltsverzeichnis A chronology Hannah Clancy, David Gutkin and Lucie Vágnerová; Introduction: of modern operatic mythologies and technologies Karen Henson; 1. Mythologies of the diva in nineteenth-century French theater Isabelle Moindrot; 2. Coloratura and technology in the mid nineteenth-century mad scene Sean M. Parr; 3. Photographic diva: Massenet's relationship with the soprano Sibyl Sanderson Karen Henson; 4. 'Pretending to be wicked': divas, technology, and the consumption of Bizet's Carmen Susan Rutherford; 5. The silent diva: Farrar's Carmen Melina Esse; 6. The domestic diva: toward an operatic history of the telephone Lydia Goehr; 7. The absent diva: notes toward a life of Cathy Berberian Arman Schwartz; 8. The televisual apotheosis of the diva in István Szabó's Meeting Venus Heather Hadlock; 9. Diva poses by Anna Netrebko: on the perception of the extraordinary in the twenty-first century Clemens Risi; Afterword: opera, media, technicity Jonathan Sterne.

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• Authors: Karen Henson, Karen (City University of New York) Henson, Karen (University of Miami) Henson
• Assisted by: Karen Henson (Editor), Karen (City University of New York) Henson (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.09.2016
• EAN: 9780521198066
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19806-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Opera
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science