02454nam 2200481 450 991082588520332120230808204150.01-4742-3910-2(CKB)4100000008168730(MiAaPQ)EBC5982225(MiAaPQ)EBC4948964(Au-PeEL)EBL4948964(CaONFJC)MIL852160(OCoLC)1024258659(EXLCZ)99410000000816873020191212d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPerforming opera a practical guide for singers and directors /Michael Ewans1st ed.London :Bloomsbury,2016.1 online resource (352 pages)Performance Bks.1-4742-3907-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Performance Bks.Acting in operaOperaProduction and directionActing in opera.OperaProduction and direction.792.50233Ewans Michael1946-1663247MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825885203321Performing opera4020413UNINA