Visiting Scholar Series: Naomi André

Abstract: Since its beginnings, opera as a genre has explored “real” portrayals. This has been expressed through discourses around verisimilitude, naturalism, verismo, and the depiction of events from history with historical (and sometimes still living) people. In many ways, nineteenth-century opera fulfilled much of the same cultural business that film and the cinema achieved in the twentieth century. Today, screens have advanced to include TV, ...