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Abstract: This thesis seeks to address how technology and film have come to
influence operatic staging practices in recent years. It begins first with an assessment
opera's place in the cinema by looking at how two film versions of Mozart's Die
Zauberflöte--Ingmar Bergman's Trollflöjten (1975) and Kenneth Branagh's Magic Flute
(2006)--both strive to fuse the theatrical and the cinematic into ... read morea hybridized artform,
capable of engaging audiences as a combination of opera and film. The second chapter shifts
focus to staged opera, but with an eye towards space and place and their interaction with
filmic technologies. As a whole, this project seeks to confront what I see as a fundamental
problem in the way scholarship has thus far approached the subject. This thesis argues for
the need of a more integrated approach to how we think and write about operatic
mediatization and intermediality in the twenty-first century.
Thesis (M.A.)--Tufts University, 2013.
Submitted to the Dept. of Music.
Advisor: Alessandra Campana.
Committee: Joseph Auner, and Jane Bernstein.
Keywords: Music, Theater, and Film studies.read less
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