Landscape Dramaturgy and (Post)Opera: Singing after Perspective

While revisiting historical developments in landscape and perspective, Ana Vujanović reframed the concept of landscape dramaturgy by showing how both notions deeply affect present ways of seeing and understanding in the performing arts. I am further intrigued to understand if and how perspective and its transcendence influence auditory perception, specifically in the context of hearing the singing voice. Finally, I illuminate the concept of landscape dramaturgy by discussing it within the framework of postopera. Drawing on the examples of the singing ice, Hans Werner Henze's The Raft of the Medusa directed by Romeo Castellucci (2018), and submerged choreography in the underwater silent film Ama (2018) by Julie Gaultier, I examine the possibilities of singing after perspective by connecting them to experiences like straying, solitude (distinct from loneliness), the replacement of surface over logocentric depth, the challenge of a singular personal view, and the promotion of shared viewpoints.