Televising Opera: Broadcasting and Performance in the North Atlantic

"Televising Opera: Broadcasting and Performance in the North Atlantic examines the early years of opera production on television in the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada. Tracing the connections between these three countries, this book explores how broadcasters remade opera in the TV studio in an effort to reshape performance, production, and composition in the mid-twentieth century. Drawing upon previously unexamined documents from broadcasting archives, this book excavates the theatrical roots of opera on television, examines how television renewed realism as an aesthetic, maps out how broadcasters sought to stimulate new composition, and sketches out the early principles for co-production between broadcasters. In doing so, Televising Opera not only offers a new history of opera on television, but also a broader account of the reciprocal relationship between the worlds of opera performance and broadcasting"-- Provided by publisher.