Novak Postopera La Belle
Novak Postopera La Belle
Novak Postopera La Belle
Voice-Body
Jelena Novak
New University of Lisbon, Portugal
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despite all the efforts to synchronize image and sound the gap between the body
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of representation.
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are synchronized to
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Glass synchronized the sung text to the unchanged original dialogues (in
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be crucial for successful operatizing in the manner that Glass deployed: dialogue
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on stage the score is simultaneously performed by the singers and the ensemble.
is the method of synchronization. This second modality of the work functions also
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acousmêtre
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the process of synchronization is stressed in La Belle et la Bête
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norms of mainstream cinema.15 The same could be said of Glass’s approach in this
both the tradition of dubbing and the tradition of playback. Chion highlights the
this procedure in Glass’ opera sits at the opposite end of the spectrum. The time
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An Eye for Music: Popular Music and the Audiovisual Surreal
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the effect of loose synchronization since it is impossible to perfectly synchronize
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and also
Only few minutes later is the spectator allowed to see the image of the
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musical materials.
homo sapiens
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profoundly scared by the Beast’s enchanted world when she gets there. She does
Beast will recognize himself as a man only when someone else recognizes him
as such. The humanization of animal and animalization of man about which
only at the end as a kind of super-human) are played by the same actor. The same
The Beast’s castle shows relations between animals and humans that are
demonstrates this too. Agamben argues that language is often offered as the locus
with diegetic noises while diegetic noises are almost entirely excluded in the scenes
at the Beast’s domain.
When the
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own ends.
of La Belle et la Bête
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in La Belle et la Bête