From Méphistophélès to Méliès : spectacle and narrative in opera and early film / Rose Theresa -- "There ain't no sanity claus!" The Marx Brothers at the opera / Michal Grover-Friedlander -- The tales of Hoffman : an instance of operality / Lesley Stern -- The cinematic body in the operatic theater : Philip Glass's La belle et la bête / Jeongwon Joe -- Why does Hollywood like opera? / Marc A. Weiner -- Opera in film : sentiment and wit, feeling and knowing : The Shawshank redemption and Prizzi's honor / Mary Hunter -- Is there a text in this libido? Diva and the rhetoric of contemporary opera criticism / David J. Levin -- The elusive voice : absence and presence in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's film Le nozze di Figaro / Marcia J. Citron -- Verdi in postwar Italian cinema / Deborah Crisp and Roger Hillman -- Chinese opera, global cinema, and the ontology of the person : Chen Kaige's Farewell my concubine / Teri Silvio -- Sounding out the operatic : Jacques Rivette's Noroît / Mary M. Wiles.
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Leading scholars of opera and film explore the many ways these two seemingly unrelated genres have come together from the silent-film era to today.