Opera Meets Film: ‘Nessun Dorma’ As An Emotional Anthem In ‘Bend It Like Beckham’

(Credit: Fox Searchlight Pictures) Opera Meets Film” is a feature dedicated to exploring the way that opera has been employed in cinema. We will select a section or a film in its entirety, highlighting the impact that utilizing the operatic form or sections from an opera can alter our perception of a film that we are viewing. This week’s installment {…}

Sep 19, 2019

Opera Meets Film: A Tenor & Soprano Provide ‘The Sum of All Fears’ With Its Dramatic & Emotional Structure

Opera Meets Film” is a feature dedicated to exploring the way that opera has been employed in cinema. We will select a section or a film in its entirety, highlighting the impact that utilizing the operatic form or sections from an opera can alter our perception of a film that we are viewing. This week’s installment features “The Sum of {…}

Sep 12, 2019

Opera Meets Film: How ‘It Chapter Two’ Uses ‘Caro Mio Ben’ To Add Dramatic Significance To One Major Death (Spoilers)

(Credit: Warner Bros) Opera Meets Film” is a feature dedicated to exploring the way that opera has been employed in cinema. We will select a section or a film in its entirety, highlighting the impact that utilizing the operatic form or sections from an opera can alter our perception of a film that we are viewing. This week’s installment features {…}

Sep 5, 2019

Opera Meets Film: How ‘Good Boys’ Uses ‘Lakmé’s’ Famous Duet For Comic Effect

(Ed Araquel/Universal Pictures via AP) “Opera Meets Film” is a feature dedicated to exploring the way that opera has been employed in cinema. We will select a section or a film in its entirety, highlighting the impact that utilizing the operatic form or sections from an opera can alter our perception of a film that we are viewing. This week’s {…}

Aug 29, 2019

Opera Meets Film: How Operas By Mozart & Verdi Depicts European Colonialism in ‘The Lost City of Z’

“Opera Meets Film” is a feature dedicated to exploring the way that opera has been employed in cinema. We will select a section or a film in its entirety, highlighting the impact that utilizing the operatic form or sections from an opera can alter our perception of a film that we are viewing. This week’s installment features James’s Grey’s ‘The {…}

Aug 24, 2019

Opera Quiz: Opera-Film Buffs Will Be Pushed To The Limit

“Opera Meets Film” has grown into one of OperaWire’s most popular sections. And to celebrate two years of the start of this weekly series, we are going to put opera and film fans to the test to see how much you really know about how opera is employed in movies. It should be a fun rediscovery of many topics we {…}

Aug 22, 2019

Opera Meets Film: ‘Don Giovanni’ & Schubert Explore Moriarty & Sherlock Holmes’ ‘Game of Shadows’

“Opera Meets Film” is a feature dedicated to exploring the way that opera has been employed in cinema. We will select a section or a film in its entirety, highlighting the impact that utilizing the operatic form or sections from an opera can alter our perception of a film that we are viewing. This week’s installment features Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock {…}

Aug 15, 2019

Opera Meets Film: How Opera Adds Narrative Depth To Ridley Scott’s ‘Hannibal’

“Opera Meets Film” is a feature dedicated to exploring the way that opera has been employed in cinema. We will select a section or a film in its entirety, highlighting the impact that utilizing the operatic form or sections from an opera can alter our perception of a film that we are viewing. This week’s installment features Ridley Scott’s “Hannibal.’ {…}

Aug 8, 2019

Opera Meets Film: How ‘Les Indes Galantes’ Highlights The Emotional Turbulence of 1970s Argentina in ‘Rojo’

“Opera Meets Film” is a feature dedicated to exploring the way that opera has been employed in cinema. We will select a section or a film in its entirety, highlighting the impact that utilizing the operatic form or sections from an opera can alter our perception of a film that we are viewing. This week’s installment features Benjamín Naishtat’s “Rojo.” {…}

Aug 1, 2019

Opera Meets Film: How An Aria From ‘Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail’ Provides Emotional & Cinematic Depth To A Transitional Moment In ‘Acusada’

(Credit: Warner Bros. / A Bofill) “Opera Meets Film” is a feature dedicated to exploring the way that opera has been employed in cinema. We will select a section or a film in its entirety, highlighting the impact that utilizing the operatic form or sections from an opera can alter our perception of a film that we are viewing. This {…}

Jul 25, 2019

Opera Meets Film: How ‘Caro Mio Ben’ Explores The Universal Emotional Truths of Lulu Wang’s ‘The Farewell’

“Opera Meets Film” is a feature dedicated to exploring the way that opera has been employed in cinema. We will select a section or a film in its entirety, highlighting the impact that utilizing the operatic form or sections from an opera can alter our perception of a film that we are viewing. This week’s installment features Lulu Wang’s “The {…}