Items related to A Night in at the Opera
Offering an arresting range of accounts by specialists in music, media, and popular culture on how the popular arts have represented opera, this book raises issues about the sociology of music and its implications for television and video culture. It looks at the relationships between serious and popular music, the desire of some composers to work in the latter while being engaged in more classical composition, and the love-hate relationships between Hollywood and La Scala.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Synopsis:
What are the implications for opera and the opera house now that opera has become so popular on television and video, and why has cinema always been so much in love with opera? This book offers a range of accounts of how the popular arts have represented this high art form written by specialists in music, media and popular culture. Beginning with "Aria" (one of ten different films - or operas), the book surveys the whole field of films using opera, or relying on operatic motifs. It considers the fabulous investment made in the television "Tosca" and the idea of opera as television's national spectacle. It questions why the cult of "the three tenors" should be so much a mark of modern culture. The book raises issues which have bearings on the sociology of music and about its implications for television and video culture. It looks at the relationships between serious and popular music (and the desire of some composers to work in the latter whilst being engaged in more classical composition), and at the love-hate relationships between Hollywood and La Scala.Finally, the book discusses the relationship between the diva and the gay, the tenor and national ideology, and the part opera plays in the society of the spectacle.
About the Author:
Jeremy Tambling teaches comparative literature at the University of Hong Kong.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherJohn Libbey & Co Ltd
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1861964668
- ISBN 13 9781861964663
- BindingPaperback
- EditorTambling Jeremy I.
(No Available Copies)
Search Books: Create a WantIf you know the book but cannot find it on AbeBooks, we can automatically search for it on your behalf as new inventory is added. If it is added to AbeBooks by one of our member booksellers, we will notify you!
Create a Want