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Author: Mark Ross Clark
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublisher Fact Sheet A practical guide to the integration of voice, acting, and movement in opera performance. Includes interviews with performers, directors, conductors, and coaches.
Author: Mark Ross Clark
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2009-04-09
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 0253109396
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"... a remarkable collection of observations and reflections on past experiences by many excellent artists and teachers that will doubtless help... those interested in creating 'opera magic.'" -- Tito Capobianco Singing, Acting, and Movement in Opera is designed for use in opera and musical theater workshops and by beginning professional singers. Drawing on years of research, teaching, and performing, Mark Ross Clark provides an overview of dramatic methodology for the singing actor, encouraging the student's active participation through practical exercises and application to well-known works. The Singer-getics method emphasizes integration of the various dimensions of opera performance, creating synergies among vocal performance, character development, facial expression, and movement on the stage. The book presents important information about stagecraft, characterization, posture, historical styles, performance anxiety, aria, and scene analysis. Excerpts from interviews with performers, directors, conductors, coaches, composers, and teachers offer insights and advice, allowing the reader to "meet the artists." An appendix by postural alignment specialist Emily Bogard describes techniques of relaxation and self-awareness for the performer. This lively book will appeal to students, teachers, professionals, and general readers alike.
Author: David F. Ostwald
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005-07-07
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0199881839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten to meet the needs of thousands of students and pre-professional singers participating in production workshops and classes in opera and musical theater, Acting for Singers leads singing performers step by step from the studio or classroom through audition and rehearsals to a successful performance. Using a clear, systematic, positive approach, this practical guide explains how to analyze a script or libretto, shows how to develop a character building on material in the score, and gives the singing performer the tools to act believably. More than just a "how-to" acting book, however, Acting for Singers also addresses the problems of concentration, trust, projection, communication, and the self-doubt that often afflicts singers pursuing the goal of believable performance. Part I establishes the basic principles of acting and singing together, and teaches the reader how to improvise as a key tool to explore and develop characters. Part II teaches the singer how to analyze theatrical work for rehearsing and performing. Using concrete examples from Carmen and West Side Story, and imaginative exercises following each chapter, this text teaches all singers how to be effective singing actors.
Author: LizBeth Abeyta Lucca
Publisher: Acting Techniques for Opera
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780981562407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas De Mallet Burgess
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780415166577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes methods for the performer to develop the skills required to sing and act at the same time as well as outline important aspects of the set helpful to the director and teacher.
Author: Mark Ross Clark
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 630
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn invaluable guide to some of the most demanding aria excerpts
Author: Pavel Ivanovich Rumi︠a︡nt︠s︡ev
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780878305520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Yoshi Oida
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-10-01
Total Pages: 123
ISBN-13: 1350148288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Invisible Actor presents the captivating and unique methods of the distinguished Japanese actor and director, Yoshi Oida. While a member of Peter Brook's theatre company in Paris, Yoshi Oida developed a masterful approach to acting that combined the oriental tradition of supreme and studied control with the Western performer's need to characterise and expose depths of emotion. Written with Lorna Marshall, Yoshi Oida explains that once the audience becomes openly aware of the actor's method and becomes too conscious of the actor's artistry, the wonder of performance dies. The audience must never see the actor but only his or her performance. Throughout Lorna Marshall provides contextual commentary on Yoshi Oida's work and methods. In a new foreword to accompany the Bloomsbury Revelations edition, Yoshi Oida revisits the questions that have informed his career as an actor and explores how his skilful approach to acting has shaped the wider contours of his life.
Author: Carolyn Abbate
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2015-09-08
Total Pages: 648
ISBN-13: 0393089533
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“The best single volume ever written on the subject, such is its range, authority, and readability.”—Times Literary Supplement Why has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries? Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker answer this question in their “effervescent, witty” (Die Welt, Germany) retelling of the history of opera, examining its development, the musical and dramatic means by which it communicates, and its role in society. Now with an expanded examination of opera as an institution in the twenty-first century, this “lucid and sweeping” (Boston Globe) narrative explores the tensions that have sustained opera over four hundred years: between words and music, character and singer, inattention and absorption. Abbate and Parker argue that, though the genre’s most popular and enduring works were almost all written in a distant European past, opera continues to change the viewer— physically, emotionally, intellectually—with its enduring power.
Author: Richard Wagner
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780803297654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith Richard Wagner, opera reached the apex of German Romanticism. Originally published in 1851, when Wagner was in political exile, Opera and Drama outlines a new, revolutionary type of musical stage work, which would finally materialize as The Ring of the Nibelung. Wagner's music drama, as he called it, aimed at a union of poetry, drama, music, and stagecraft. ø In a rare book-length study, the composer discusses the enhancement of dramas by operatic treatment and the subjects that make the best dramas. The expected Wagnerian voltage is here: in his thinking about myths such as Oedipus, his theories about operatic goals and musical possibilities, his contempt for musical politics, his exaltation of feeling and fantasy, his reflections about genius, and his recasting of Schopenhauer. ø This edition includes the full text of volume 2 of William Ashton Ellis's 1893 translation commissioned by the London Wagner Society.
