ABSTRACT
Leading scholars of opera and film explore the many ways these two seemingly unrelated genres have come together from the silent-film era to today.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 6|27 pages
Opera in Film
Sentiment and Wit, Feeling and Knowing: The Shawshank Redemption and Prizzi's Honor
chapter 7|12 pages
Is There a Text in This Libido?
Diva and the Rhetoric of Contemporary Opera Criticism
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chapter 8|21 pages
The Elusive Voice
Absence and Presence in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's Film Le nozze di Figaro
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chapter 10|21 pages
Chinese Opera, Global Cinema, and the Ontology of the Person
Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine
