Overview

Operafilm is a new word for an emerging, auteur-led gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art, in which music, film, and performance are combined to sustain intellectually and aesthetically coherent metamodernist narratives. In this form of storytelling, every element, including score, image, and performance, is given equal attention. Daron Hagen is the first to compose, write, storyboard, direct, and edit full-length operafilms, shifting authorship away from screenwriters and towards the ""auteur composer-director"" that embodies the depth of the genre. Hagen's Bardo Trilogy offers an exploration of operafilm, conjuring the inner life of Orson Welles at his moment of death, a magical-realist last supper with four New Yorkers on the eve of 9/11, and the final days of a composer who sees song and life as a cosmic audition. This book explores the origins of the emerging genre, highlighting Hagen's own process as the single screenwriter, director, and composer of the works discussed.

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9781476699561

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""Hagen moves energetically from a spot on appraisal of Angelo Badalamenti's importance in shaping the operatic visions of David Lynch to hands on advice about how a film composer navigates post production in a book that is bound to engage filmmakers and composers of all kinds, as well as cinephiles and film theorists.""--Miles Hankins, film composer and producer, A Quiet Place, Long Shot, and Burn Notice

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Esteemed composer Daron Hagen is a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and winner of the Kennedy Center Friedheim Prize. He has taught at Bard College, the Curtis Institute of Music, Chicago College of the Performing Arts and the Princeton Atelier, and is a Lifetime Member of the Corporation of Yaddo. He lives in Rhinebeck, New York.

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