Opera and Video

Héctor J. Pérez is Associate Professor of Audiovisual Communication and Aesthetics and a member of the Technology and Information Research Team, CALSI, at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Among his main publications on Opera are «Shakespeare jenseits des Dramas» (1998); El Nacimiento de la tragedia. Un ensayo sobre la metafísica del artista en el joven Nietzsche (2001); «Opera Narratives: From Mythology to Audiovisual Aesthetics» (2006); Expression in the Performing Arts (2010); «Una estética audiovisual de Electra» (2010).

Contents: Héctor J. Pérez: Introduction - Gabriela Cruz: The Fairy Tale of Bel Canto: Walt Disney, Theodor Adorno, Kurt Weill Play the Gramophone - Emanuele Senici: Opera on Italian Television: The First Thirty Years, 1954-1984 - Delphine Vincent: « Temps Spatialisé »: Opera Relays and the Sense of Temporality - Gaia Varon: Overtures on Screen - Jaume Radigales: Playback Problems when Filming Opera for the Screen: Two Case Studies - Áine Sheil: The Opera Director's Voice: DVD 'Extras' and the Question of Authority - José M. Sánchez-Verdú: Composing in New Synaesthetic and Interdisciplinary Spaces: Libro de las estancias (Book of Abodes) as a Musical, Architectural and Visual Installation Proposal.