New,Opera for Everyone: The Industry's Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age
- Author: Steigerwald Ille, Megan
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Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Introduction
- From Recession to Pandemic: Operatic Contexts
- Yuval Sharon and The Industry
- Methods: Precarity, Perspectives, and Critique
- Plan of Book
- Chapter 1: Opera as Mobile Music: Invisible Cities
- Introduction
- Experiencing Mediated Performance: Logistics
- Interpretive Ambiguity, Audience Agency
- Performance History and Digital Adaptation
- Writing for Headphones: Making Sound Design Visible
- New Rules of Spectatorship: Listening to Invisible Cities
- Audile Techniques and Consumerism
- Wagner’s Invisible Theater, Brecht’s headphones?
- Convention or Experimentation?
- Conclusions: Contradictory Spectatorships and the Operatic Genre
- Chapter 2: Operatic Economics: Liveness and Labor in Hopscotch
- Introduction
- Operatic Tradition on Wheels: The Production
- Fractured Logistics
- Hybrid Spectatorships
- The Labor of the Live
- Mediated Entertainment and Operatic Distance
- Look at Me! Isolation in Digital Performance
- Curation and Commodification
- Mediating Intimacy and Isolation
- Performers, Participants, and Power
- Participating in Precarity
- Commodities and Conclusions
- Chapter 3 : Experiments with Institutionality: Galileo, War of the Worlds, and ATLAS
- Introduction
- Precarities and Production: Galileo and War of the Worlds
- Traditional Structures and Closed Systems
- Closed Institutional Precedents and Contemporary Manifestations
- New Approaches to Political Economy: Open Models of Production
- Open Institutional Lineages: Economic and Experimental Tensions
- War of the Institutional Frameworks?
- Coda: ATLAS
- Chapter 4: “What you remember doesn’t matter”: Toward an Anti-Colonial Opera
- Introduction
- Colonizer Opera
- New Models of Collaboration
- Experimenting with Form: From Workshop to Film
- Representing Individuals, Rejecting Tokenism, Re-envisioning Opera
- Moving Beyond Colonial Collaboration: Rehearsals
- Moving Beyond Colonial Collaboration: Performer Composition
- “If you’re going to change opera, you have to change it”: Lingering Colonial Hierarchies
- Conclusion: Colonial Hauntings, Anti-Colonial Ambiguities
- Epilogue
- Introduction
- Closing the Curtain on Sweet Land: March-November 2020
- The Future of Opera for Everyone and The Industry’s Artistic Director Collective
- Everyone’s Opera