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Television Opera: The Fall of Opera Commissioned for Television.(Book Review)
By Jennifer Barnes. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2003. [x, 124 p. ISBN 0-85115-912-5. $60.] Illustrations, facsimiles, bibliography, index.
Since the advent of the age of mechanical reproduction, opera production has exploited such modern media as television, video, and film as well as the traditional live stage. The proliferation of technologically mediated operas has stimulated critical inquiries, and the scholarship on these mediated operas has rapidly grown over the past few decades. Yet there are only a handful of book-length studies on the topic. While the existing scholarship has shown a tendency to focus on the opera-cinema encounter (for ...
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