Performing Opera - A Practical Guide for Singers and Directors (Hardcover)

In Performing Opera: A Practical Guide for Singers and Directors Michael Ewans provides a detailed and practical workbook to performing many of the most commonly produced operas. Drawing on examples from twenty-four operas ranging in period from Gluck and Mozart to Britten and Tippett, it illustrates exactly how opera functions as dramatic form. Grounded in close analyses of performances of thirty scenes and five whole operas by first-rate singers and celebrated directors, Performing Opera provides readers with an appreciation of the unique challenges and skills required by performers and directors. It will assist them in their own performance and equip them with detailed knowledge of works most commonly featured in the repertoire. In the first part of the book the analysis progresses from scenes in which the singers are silent, via arias and monologues, duets and confrontations, up to ensembles. Wider issues are subsequently addressed: encounters with offstage events, encounters with the numinous, characterization, and the sense of inevitability in tragic opera.

General

Imprint:	Methuen Drama
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Performance Books
Release date:	February 2016
Authors:	Michael Ewans
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-1-4742-3908-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > Opera
LSN:	1-4742-3908-0
Barcode:	9781474239080

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