STAGING VOICE, 2021
Staging Voice is a unique approach to the aesthetics of voice and its staging in performance.This study reflects on what it would mean to take opera’s decisive attribute—voice—as the foundation of its staged performance. The book thinks of staging through the medium of voice. This exploration engages with less frequently performed works of major and […]
Operatic Afterlives, 2011
In Operatic Afterlives, Michal Grover-Friedlander examines the implications of opera’s founding myth — the story of Orpheus and Eurydice: Orpheus’s attempt to revive the dead Eurydice with the power of singing. Traditionally, opera kills its protagonists that best embody its ideal of the singing voice, but Grover-Friedlander argues that opera at times also represents the […]
Vocal Apparitions: The Attraction of Cinema to Opera, 2005
Cinema and opera have become intertwined in a variety of powerful and unusual ways. Vocal Apparitions tells the story of this fascinating intersection, interprets how it occurred, and explores what happens when opera is projected onto the medium of film. Michal Grover-Friedlander finds striking affinities between film and opera — from Lon Chaney’s classic silent film, The […]