Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body
| By: | Novak, Jelena, Dr |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781472441034 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781472441058 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Both in opera studies and in most operatic works, the singing body is often taken for granted. In Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body, Jelena Novak reintroduces an awareness of the physicality of the singing body to opera studies. Arguing that the voice-body relationship itself is a producer of meaning, she furthermore posits this relationship as one of the major driving forces in recent opera. She takes as her focus six contemporary operas - La Belle et la B