Wagnervideo
The Opera Quarterly, Spring 2011, v. 27, no. 2-3, pp. 234-255
Toronto critic Peter Goddard recently wrote of "opera's video projection fetish," quoting director Astrid Janson on the "fashionable" use of "large projections, particularly in Wagner." Arguably, the ultimate product of this "fetish" has been The Tristan Project, a production of Wagner's three-act Handlung directed by Peter Sellars with a commissioned full-length video by Bill Viola. Morris explores the cultural source of this new collaboration between the opera and video, arguing that "their overlaps—spaces and crossings where traditional media and genre boundaries blur and even collapse—offers so much to opera studies".
ITEM 2011.081 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Tristan und Isolde – Richard Wagner
The Tristan Project – Bill Viola
The Tristan Project – Peter Sellars
Philip Glass
Slavoj Žižek