Film Music: The Problems of Filming Opera

678 views · Published 7 May 2009 · 2:15 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: Gresham College · 2009 · Education

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Too fat and strained for film? Roger Parker, Gresham Professor of Music, looks at the innate conflict between the demands of operatic singing and the expectations of a DVD-watching audience.

This is an extract from the lecture 'Film Music: Opera'.
Two further extracts are available here on YouTube, but the full lecture can be downloaded (like all of our lectures) in from the Gresham College website, in video, audio or text formats:
http://www.gresham.ac.uk

Gresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website.

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