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Technology and the Diva

Sopranos, Opera, and Media from Romanticism to the Digital Age

  • Editor: Henson, Karen

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$45.25

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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.