Abstract


 
 
 John Adam’s opera Nixon in China (1987) opened the era of what some critics called ‘CNN operas’ — an operatic mixture of political issues and televisual representation. Since Nixon, various attempts to interrogate issues of world politics, power and realism on the (post)operatic stage took place: video documentary opera Three Tales (1998–2002) by Steve Reich and Beryl Korot, “The News” (2011) by Jacob ter Veldhuis (Jacob TV), five one-minute operas by Michel van der Aa (produced from 2010 to 2014, commissioned for the Dutch TV program Der Wereld Drait Door), Aliados (2013) by Sebastian Rivas, to mention only the few. This article attempts to give a partial overview of different operatic approaches to televisual expression and to illuminate ways of depicting documentary and news in recent opera focusing on the political figures.
 
 

Highlights

  • This article attempts to give a partial overview of different operatic approaches to televisual expression and to illuminate ways of depicting documentary and news in recent opera focusing on the political figures

  • I would like to start this article with the 1999 song by Deborah Holland from the album The Book of Survival: example 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNbyO2ezoWc

  • The cycle started on September 22, 2010 with the piece De Formatie by Micha Hamel, which is about the formation of the cabinet in 2010 by Dutch politicians Mark Rutte, Maxime Verhagen, Geert Wilders, and Job

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Adriaan van Dis; composition, film: Michel van der Aa; design: Maarten Cornet. sound over-produced: they become singing caricatures. Adriaan van Dis; composition, film: Michel van der Aa; design: Maarten Cornet. 18 Text: Tommy Wieringa; music: Michel van der Aa; performers: Tiemo Wang and vocalists VocaalLAB. Singing caricatures are a field of interest for Dutch composer and director. Michel van der Aa. Michel van der Aa His operatic caricatures are full of criticism of media, 19 Libretto: Felix Rottenberg; pictures: Museum Geelvinck Hinlopen Huis aan power, and society, but are realized in quite a different manner than Veldhuis’s. In 2010 one of the most popular Dutch television talk shows, De Wereld Draait Door (The World Keeps Turning) by public broadcaster VARA, TV Channel NPO 1, started commissioning one-minute operas to be performed live in their program. The cycle started on September 22, 2010 with the piece De Formatie by Micha Hamel, which is about the formation of the cabinet in 2010 by Dutch politicians Mark Rutte, Maxime Verhagen, Geert Wilders, and Job

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