When Opera Meets Film

Contents

• Introduction
• Part I . Style:
• 1. Operatic style in Coppola's Godfather trilogy
• 2. Opera as fragment: 'Liebestod' and 'Nessun dorma' in Aria
• Part II . Subjectivity:
• 3. Subjectivity in the opera-films of Jean-Pierre Ponelle
• 4. Don Giovanni and subjectivity in Claude Chabrol's La Ceremonie
• Part III . Desire:
• 5. 'An honest contrivance': opera and desire in Moonstruck
• 6. The sound of desire: Cosi's 'Soave sia il vento' in Sunday, Bloody Sunday and Closer
• Epilogue
• Bibliography
• Filmography and videography.