[PDF] Singing Acting And Movement In Opera eBook

Author : Mark Ross Clark
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 27,99 MB
Release : 2009-04-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253109396

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"... 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
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 38,35 MB
Release : 2005-07-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199881839

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Written 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 : Martin Constantine
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 25,78 MB
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 1350006475

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The complete dramatic toolbox for the opera singer – a step-by-step guide detailing how to create character, from auditions through to rehearsal and performance and formulate a successful career. Drawing upon the innovative approach to the training of young opera singers developed by Martin Constantine, Co-Director of ENO Opera Works, The Opera Singer's Acting Toolkit leads the singer through the process of bringing the libretto and score to life in order to create character. It draws on the work of practitioners such as Stanislavski, Lecoq, Laban and Cicely Berry to introduce the singer to the tools needed to create an interior and physical life for character. The book draws on operatic repertoire from Handel through Mozart to Britten to present practical techniques and exercises to help the singer develop their own individual dramatic toolbox. The Opera Singer's Toolbox features interviews with leading conductors, directors, singers and casting agents to offer invaluable insights into the professional operatic world, and advice on how to remain focused on the importance of the work itself.

Author : Kenneth J. Pereira
Publisher :
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 42,92 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Acting in opera
ISBN :

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An opera singer must be both a complete musician and an actor. He or she must have the vocal technique to sing some of the most challenging music ever written, while also creating a believable character onstage. Despite the findings of the National Association of Schools of Music's 1984 study "The Education and Training of the Singer-Actor," the major-field curriculum for most vocal performance programs is devoted primarily to developing a student's singing voice and musicianship, with little or no curriculum dedicated to dramatic training. This document outlines a two-semester course in stage movement that is specifically designed for operatic performers. Through looking at the defining characteristics of this genre, current and historical approaches of dramatic training for the opera singer, as well as the demands of the current operatic industry, one will begin to see why the stage movement course outlined later in this document is both desirable and essential to the dramatic training of a young operatic performer.

Author : Thomas De Mallet Burgess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,26 MB
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 100015890X

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This book is an unique resource which directly addresses all performers who sing and act, whether in opera, musical theatre or music-theatre. By looking beyond the separate acts of singing and acting the performer builds up a greater awareness of how the two interrelate to form a single powerful expression. Using games, exercises and discussion, The Singing and Acting Handbook takes a stimulating approach to the demands made upon today's performers, and will equip both the experienced professional and the student to take full advantage of rehearsal and performance. With advice on approaches to learning music, interpreting scores, and building characters, it provides a long-awaited innovative resource for performers, directors, workshop leaders and teachers.

Author : Mark Ross Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 50,19 MB
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199351694

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Truly powerful vocal performance in musical theater is more than just the sum of good vocal tone and correct notes. As experienced teacher, director, and performer Mark Ross Clark lays out in The Broadway Song, powerful performance communicates the central function of a song within the context of the surrounding narrative, or the "truth" of a song. Because unstaged performances of a song, such as auditions, are key to the success of all aspiring singers, Clark provides here the essential practical manual that will help performers choose the right pieces for their vocal abilities and identify the key truths of them. Clark begins by walking readers conceptually through how a song's truth is based in contexts: what show is a song from? Which character sings it? When in the show does it occur? Answering these questions will lead readers to more convincing performances that are grounded in the text, music, character, context, and larger environment (setting, time frame, and circumstances). The Broadway Song provides a comprehensive guide to the formal characteristics of key Broadway songs on a song-by-song basis, including main voice type, secondary voice qualities (such as soprano-lyric or alto-comic), range and tessitura, as well as larger contextual materials about the source -- from the musical's background, information about the character singing, and synoptic narrative information for the song -- that provide the performer a way into the character. Clark moreover brings his wide-ranging and extensive experience as a director, performer, and teacher to bear in his performance notes on the individual pieces. Additionally, he includes excerpts from short interviews with artists that provide insight into the song from the perspective of those who first created (or re-created) it. The interviews, conducted with composers, lyricists, performers, and -- in one case -- book collaborators, are snapshots into the creative process, and act as conduits to further study of the selected songs.

Author : Daniel Helfgot
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 13,46 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Music
ISBN :

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This text offers clear guidance in making music visual. It proposes that performers study the opera's score third line - movement, focus, facial expression and vocal inflections that can be naturally derived from the interaction of text and music - to transform the score into reality on the stage.