John Yohalem says you must watch Something for Everyone
Wagner is used as incidental music or background to probably more films than any other operatic composer.
By John Yohalem
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Melancholia
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Cornelia says you must watch Melancholia
Impossible to pick any one film clip, but it’s hard to imagine a more evocative use of operatic music than Lars von Trier‘s Melancholia.
By Cornelia
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Macabre fascination
Can György Ligeti‘s only opera be understood as the composer’s own grappling with trauma, death, and memory of a past life?
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).