[ecrea] New publication: Opera, Exoticism and Visual Culture. Lee, Hyunseon / Segal, Naomi (eds)

Lee, Hyunseon / Segal, Naomi (eds)
Opera, Exoticism and Visual Culture

Year of Publication: 2015

Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 
2015. X, 289 pp.

ISBN 978-3-0343-1782-5
ISBN 978-3-0353-0659-0 (eBook)

As a uniquely hybrid form of artistic output, straddling music and 
theatre and high and popular culture, opera offers vast research 
possibilities not only in the field of music studies but also in the 
fields of media and cultural studies. Using the exotic legacy of the 
fin-de-siècle as its primary lens, this volume explores the shifting 
relationships between the multimedia genre of opera and the rapidly 
changing world of visual cultures. It also examines the changing 
aesthetics of opera in composition and performance and historical 
(dis)continuity, including the postcolonial era. The book comprises 
eleven interdisciplinary essays by scholars from eight countries, 
researching in music, theatre, literature, film and media studies, as 
well as a special contribution by opera director Sir Jonathan Miller. 
The book begins with an examination of operatic exoticism in various 
cultural contexts, such as French, Latin American and Arabic culture. 
The next sections focus on the most beloved figures in opera performance 
– Salome, Madame Butterfly and Aida – and performances of these operas 
through history. Further interpretations of the operas in film and new 
media are then considered. In the final section, Sir Jonathan Miller 
reflects on the ‘afterlife’ of opera.
Contents: Maria Birbili: Caught in Transition: Exoticism in Gaspare 
Spontini’s Fernand Cortès – Roberto Ignacio Díaz: Daniel Catán’s 
Butterflies; or, The Opera House in the Jungle – Hervé Lacombe: The 
Reversal of Exoticism: Ahmed Essyad’s Le Collier des Ruses [The Necklace 
of Tricks] – Samuel N. Dorf: Eroticizing Antiquity: Madame Mariquita, 
Régina Badet and the Dance of the Exotic Greeks from Stage to Popular 
Press – Clair Rowden: Loïe Fuller and Salome: The Unveiling of a Myth – 
Yûji Nawata: The Kawakami Troupe in Early Twentieth-Century Europe in 
the Context of Media History – Hyunseon Lee: Global Butterfly: Visual 
Exoticism, or its Reversal, in Silent Film and Opera Performances – 
Erika Fischer-Lichte: Scandalizing Orientalism: The Aida Productions by 
Hans Neuenfels (1981) and Peter Konwitschny (1994) – Hedda 
Høgåsen-Hallesby: Performing the Icon: The Body on Stage and the Staged 
Body in Salome’s ‘Dance of the Seven Veils’ – Marcia J. Citron: 
Affirmation and Resistance: Operatic Exoticism on Film – Naomi Segal: 
The Fatal Attraction of Madame Butterfly – Sir Jonathan Miller: 
Subsequent Performances.

http://peterlangoxford.wordpress.com/2015/01/02/new-publication-opera-exoticism-and-visual-culture/

Series: Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the 
Arts - Volume 34

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