Television Opera: The Fall of Opera Commissioned for Television

By Jennifer Barnes

Here are three operas, commissioned for television at twenty-year intervals - Menotti's 'Amahl and the Night Visitors', Britten's 'Owen Wingrave' and Barry's 'Triumph of Beauty and Deceit. Examining changes in television techniques, Jennifer Barnes considers their impact on the role of the composer and questions whether television, in its rapid evolution, has abandoned early indigenous production methods, and with that its secrets of writing and producing opera for the medium.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851159125
• ISBN13: 9780851159126
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.7"