Encyclopedia of Opera on Screen: A Guide to More Than 100 Years of Opera Films Videos and DVDs

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This bountiful book is a comprehensive guide to the thousands of films DVDs and videocassettes featuring operas and opera singers from 1896 to the present. From ABC Television to Franco Zeffirelli the encyclopedia is a storehouse of fascinating information for film and opera aficionados and casual browsers alike. Find answers to such questions as: What were the first operas filmed? Why did they make silent films of operas? Why was a pseudo-opera written for Citizen Kane? What was the title of Maria Callass only film? Organized alphabetically with more than 1 900 fully cross-referenced entries the book casts a wide net that covers not only expected topicsoperas operettas zarzuelas composers singers conductors writers and film directorsbut also the unexpected and offbeatanimated opera first operas on film puppet opera films silent films about opera and many other lesser-known topics. Encyclopedia of Opera on Screen illuminates the many intersections between opera and film as never before.