Opera on Screen : Yale University Press : 9780300191417 : 0300191413 : 09 Jul 2012 : What happens to opera when it&;s presented on the screen? How does an opera change when it becomes a movie, a television presentation, or a video? This book is the first to explore opera and its treatment on the screen from a musicologist&;s perspective. Marcia Citron provides a fascinating history of the nearly 100-year-old genre, examines landmark works of opera on screen from a variety of viewpoints, and shows how different electronic media shape the conception of this art form. The book begins with a comprehensive survey of the origins and development of screen opera. Citron then focuses on such significant works as Franco Zeffirelli&;s Otello, Francesco Rosi&;s Bizet&;s Carmen, Joseph Losey&;s Don Giovanni, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger&;s Tales of Hoffmann, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg&;s Parsifal, Peter Sellars&;s four opera productions for television, and the celebrated relay telecast of Otel