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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHer book contributes many inspiring ideas to the discussion of contemporary opera staging and the meaning-making process, especially if it is approached as a point of human experience, as an (performative) event ... Havelková also sums up crucial, insightful and (still) up to date approaches to opera, theatre, media, and technology in the context of culture ... Havelková's book is a significant contribution * %Sárka Havlíčková Kysová, Theatralia *
Havelková fulfilled her aim not to map out an exemplary repertory of contemporary hypermadial opera, but rather to chart the theoretical terrain of opera as hypermedium. * %Sárka Havlíčková Kysová, Theatrialia *
Starting from the premise that opera is always already a hypermediated art form, this is a very timely examination of the use of new media in operatic production to unsettle the established media hierarchies of opera. The investigation employs considerable theoretical sophistication to offer new ways of thinking critically and politically about the implications of new media for the forms of opera today, positing a 'politics of perception' beyond the more familiar politics of representation. * Nicholas Till, University of Sussex *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Theorizing Opera as Hypermedium Chapter One: Allegory and Excess: Reading Hypermedial Opera Chapter Two: Theatricality and Absorption: Listening for a Point of Experience Chapter Three: Liveness and Mediatization: (De)constructing Dichotomies Chapter Four: Synaesthesia or Anaesthesia? Towards a Politics of Hypermedial Opera Conclusion Bibliography Index
