Description The evolution of the close bond between the visual arts and Opera starting from the nineteenth century up to the early twenty-first century. (Frauen-Liebe und Leben, Hatje-Cantz, 2013) She has been curator and music adviser for the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg, Germany, and guest lecturer on stage decor at the Kunstakad.
She is the author of several books and essays concerning the relationship between art, theatre and music.
Formerly an Opera singer, she performed principal roles throughout Europe (Covent Garden, l\'Opera de la Bastille, Theatre du Chatelet).
About the author Denise Wendel-Poray is a Canadian writer and critic holding degrees from Yale University in Connecticut, and Mc Gill University in Montreal.
Finally, interviews with world famous artists such as Anselm Kiefer, William Kentridge, Bill Viola, Robert Longo, Jonathan Meese, and Daniel Richter show how their contribution to the genre is making Opera today more than ever a form of "total art" or "Gesamtkunstwerk" and a hotbed of contemporary creation.
The event of pop art, happenings, and experimental theatre with the collaboration of artists Robert Indiana, David Hockney, Robert Wilson brought on further developments in the realm of opera.
Directly after the armistice of 1945, famous artists such as Andr Derain, Balthus, Dal , Andr Masson, and Kokoschka reopened the theaters amidst ruins, thus ushering in a new era of optimism.
Opera and Art, curator and art and music critic Denise Wendel-Poray first examines historic productions beginning with Schinkel\'s iconic stage design for Mozart\'s Magic Flute, before exploring those of the 20th century with Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes and the implication of avant-garde artists in Opera up until World War II.
In her book Painting the Stage.
This meeting of the arts was never so intense as on the operatic stage.
The intertwining of visual and musical arts at the beginning of the 20th century led to modernism, abstraction and in music, atonality.
Description The evolution of the close bond between the visual arts and Opera starting from the nineteenth century up to the early twenty-first century
