From opera to cinema, from cinema to opera: the art of actor-singer
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-7114.sig.2020.164518Keywords:
Acting, Silent film, Opera, TheaterAbstract
This paper raises questions concerning the participation of opera singers in silent movies and the influence of that experience on the creation of a more naturalist form of acting in opera. Considering the activity of acting under a broader perspective, we reflect about stage pictorialism, a common practice in non-musical theater by the end of the 19th century which is also adopted in opera. Our considerations are guided by a well-documented case of film screening, Metropolitan Opera House soprano Geraldine Farrar as Carmen in the homonym 1915 movie by Cecil B. De Mille.
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