Technology and the Diva

Contents

• A chronology Hannah Clancy, David Gutkin and Lucie Vagnerova
• 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 Istvan Szabo'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.