Opera in the Media Age

Paul Fryer is an academic, author, editor and researcher, based in Kent (UK). He has lectured and presented film screenings internationally and is a visiting professor at the Universities of Leeds, London South Bank and East London.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionThe Business of Opera: Opera, Advertising and the Return to Popular Culture (Paul Fryer)Making Culture Popular: Opera and the Media Industries (Sam ­O’Connell)Opera Criticism: State of the Art and Beyond (Daniel ­Meyer-Dinkgräfe)Gods and Heroes or Monsters of the Media? (Trevor Siemens)Opera and the Audio Recording Industry (Robert Cannon)Opera Singers as Pop Stars: Opera Within the Popular Music Industry (Christopher Newell and George Newell) Cross-Cuts and Arias: The Language of Film and Its Impact on Opera (Kevin Stephens)Opera on Optical Video Disc, or the Latest (and Final?) Avatar of the Gesamtkunstwerk (Pierre Bellemare)Wunderkammer: Light as a Scenographic and Dramaturgical Tool in Opera (Hansjörg Schmidt)Opera, Art and Industrial Production: Lighting at the Royal Opera House, London (Nick Hunt)After The Twilight of the Gods: Opera Experiments, New Media and the Opera of the Future (Michael Earley) About the ContributorsIndex

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