Technology and the Diva
Sopranos, Opera, and Media from Romanticism to the Digital Age
- Editor: Henson, Karen
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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.