Postopera: Reinventing The Voice-Body (Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies In Opera)

Both in opera studies and in most operatic works, the singing body is taken for granted. Jelena Novak reintroduces an awareness of the physicality of the singing body to opera studies. Arguing that the body-voice relationship itself is a producer of meaning, she furthermore posits this relationship as one of the major driving forces in recent opera. She takes as her focus six contemporary operas - La Belle et la B?e, Writing to Vermeer, Three Tales, One, Homeland and La Commedia and dissects the singing body as a set of rules, protocols, effects, strategies.

• • Author: Dr Jelena Novak
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: May 28, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 192 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1472441036
• • ISBN-13: 9781472441034