Michal Grover-Friedlander is Associate Professor of Musicology and head of the Musicology Department at Tel Aviv University. Her first monograph, Vocal Apparitions: Cinema's Attraction to Opera, was published by Princeton University Press in 2005. Her second book Operatic Afterlives was published by Zone Books in [...] is artistic founder and director of the experimental opera ensemble Ta Opera Zuta.

Introduction

Directing Opera

Staging Voice

Chapter 1: Staging A Vulnerable Voice: Weill and Brecht's Der Jasager (1930)

'Music... goes its own vast peaceful way'

Translations and Transformations

Consent

Yes and No

Yes-singing and Mute Agreement

Doubling and Muteness

Death

The Gesture

Acrobat, Measure, Distance, Scale

Chapter 2: Binding the Voice: Ficarra and Whittington's The Empress's Feet (1995)

A Voice for the Feet

The Empress's Feet

Sleepwalking Feet

Sleepwalking Empress

Foot-binding

Castrati

Fold

Soaring Voice

Hollowed-out voice

Aerial Acrobat

Chapter 3: Staging Thought in Satie's Socrate (1919)

Enigmatic Work

Flexible Timbre

Satie's Plato

Marsyas

Cicadas

Swan Song

Nietzsche's Socrates

White

Furniture Music

Respectful Silence

Restaging Socrate

Voice and Music Echoed in Staging and Set

Staging Musical Myth

Staging Socrates's Death

Reference List

Index