The invention of cinema was ingenious, so much so that virtually no-one quite knew what to do with it. In its earliest stages, especially with the advent of the

The allure of opera to cinema early in the century held up through the silent era, into sound films, through the golden age of movies and into the most recent a

Filmmakers' fascination with opera dates back to the silent era but it was not until the late 1980s that critical enquiries into the intersection of opera and c

Since 2006, leading opera companies have beamed their shows to thousands of cinema screens all over the world – live. 'Opera cinema' is the most successful ma

The transition from silent to synchronized sound film was one of the most dramatic transformations in cinema's history, as it radically changed the technology,