Books by David Schroeder
Cinema’s Illusions, Opera’s Allure
by David Schroeder
Let’s take the Italian film director Sergio Leone who made films like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. He based all his dramatic structure on opera. You can hear that in the music in the movies and also in the way the drama was built up and the way the characters were introduced. It is all following in the dramatic line of Verdi and others that came before him.
Interviews where books by David Schroeder were recommended
The best books on Opera, recommended by Nikola Matisic
The Scandinavian tenor argues Verdi is the greatest. Also, “the opera house in itself is an instrument. You play on the space between the audience and the stage”
