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OPERA AND FILM
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Instructor: Tereza Havelková
Office Location: nám. J. Palacha 2, room 403
Office Hours: TBA
Email: tereza.havelkova@ff.cuni.cz
Class Days/Time: Tue and Thur 10.50-12.25
Classroom: Tue 405, Thur 404
Course syllabus
Course Description
The encounters of opera and cinema date back to the latter’s inception.
Opera served as a source of gripping stories for silent movies, and it
was not only revered but also ridiculed by the new medium, as in Marx
Brothers’ A Night at the Opera (1935). Canonic works of opera (Bizet’s
Carmen, Mozart’s The Magic Flute) were successfully adapted for the
screen by iconic directors such as Franco Zeffirelli and Ingmar
Bergman, and later Kenneth Branagh and Peter Sellars. Moreover, opera
left its mark on both the Hollywood blockbuster production (think
Pretty Woman, for example) and European art cinema. Last but not least,
television opera was developed as a new intermedial genre devised
specifically for the small screen. In recent years, increasing
scholarly attention has been paid to these developments, with several
book-length studies devoted to opera on screen. The present course
draws on this scholarship to explore some of the best-known examples of
the diverse encounters of opera, cinema and television. The course is
designed to provide students with audio-visual experience of the
selected works and with theoretical and analytical tools to approach
them.
Readings
Week 1
Rose Theresa: From Méphistophélès to Méliès
Week 2
Schroeder: Attack of the anarchists: A Night at the Opera
Grover-Friedlander: Brothers at the Opera
Week 3
Weiner: Why Does Hollywook Like Opera?
Hunter: Opera in Film: Sentiment and Wit...
Week 4
Citron: An Honest Contrivance: Opera and Desire in Moonstruck
Week 5
Leppert: Opera, Aesthetic Violence, and the Imposition...
Week 6
Stern: The Tales of Hoffmann: An Instance of Operality
Citron: Cinema and the Power of Fantasy: Powell and... [Babbington and Evans] - to be uploaded
Week 7
Citron: Opera al fresco: Rosi's Bizet’s Carmen and...
Week 8
Tambling: Ideology in the Cinema: Rewriting Carmen
McClary: Carmen on Film
Schroeder: Carmen Copies
Week 9
Tambling: Losey's Fenomeni Morbosi: Don Giovanni
Citron: Opera al fresco: Rosi's Bizet’s... (same as for Week 7)
Libretto: Don Giovanni (English)
Week 10
Citron: The Elusive Voice: Absence and Presence in...
Libretto: Le Nozze di Figaro (English)
Week 11
Tambling: Opera as Culinary Art: Bergman‟s Magic flute
Libretto: Magic Flute (English)
Week 12
Barnes: A Daring Experiment...
Week 13
Barnes: Britten, Opera and Television
Tambling: Owen Wingrave and Television Opera
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