CURTAIN, GONG, STEAM

In this innovative book, Gundula Kreuzer argues for the foundational role of technologies in the conception, production, and study o f nineteenth-century opera. She shows how composers increasingly incorporated novel audiovisual effects in their works and how the u ses and meanings of the required apparatuses changed through the twentieth century, sometimes still resonating in stagings, performa nce art, and popular culture today. Focusing on devices (which she dubs Wagnerian technologies) intended to amalgamate operas var ious media ...[Read more]