In considering the CJA as 'opera' I broached the subject with 2 people who would offer an unbiased opinion. These bullet points suggest further interogation.
Aine Sheil (lecturer York University)
- is CJA not a radio play?
- Approach to scale?
- Visual dominance ... Rick Altman's redundancy of image in cinema .. audio-visual contract is a conceit.
- full staging - in a Montiverdi sense i.e. framing the music rather than re-telling the story using another (perhaps contrasting and confusing) sense
- post authoritarian direction
- new media devices creating improvised/ generative libretto
- Opera is dead. Long live opera ... but what is it? Where can we find out? What is the recipe in 2010?
Tom Wallace
- does CJA still have voice, musicized language, instruments, dramaturgy (as opposed to the pre-digital concept of linear narrative/ the 'story LINE'), staging?
- am I entering this phase through a study of the opera canon? cv-no have accidentally found myself in the confluence of music and theatre through an interest in the phenomenological effects of listening and seeing.
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