The stupendous impact of the magic lantern, the early technology for producing spectacles of moving images, on the imaginative labors of the romantic generation, especially when these return us to the domain of the ocular, of seeing and gazing, has long been recognized in scholarship. Less understood is the mobilization of the apparatus for reimagining voice, singing and song during the 19th-century. This presentation takes its point of departure from an eccentric assemblage of scenes  from silent film, narrative, song and opera, read in kaleidoscopic manner for traces of sound and for the sense of how the lantern may be said to have constituted the scene of romantic listening.