This course synthesizes acting, movement, and musical skills to prepare the student for effective musical theater performance. The course may include improvisation, movement and acting exercises, character study, and scene work. Areas of instruction will include performance techniques, stage direction, make-up, stage management, properties, and scenery building. The course will conclude with the performance of several scenes. The specific content of this course will change from semester to semester.
Emphasis is placed upon in-depth study of the selected repertoire.
VC433 or 633 or permission of the instructor. An elective course involving intensive preparation and performance of a role in a fully staged opera production. Open only to graduate Voice Performance majors. Through hands-on experience in the Westminster Voice Laboratory, students explore the physics of sound, the fundamentals of musical acoustics, and acoustical elements that are unique to the human singing voice. A wide range of important historical and contemporary pedagogy treatises is reviewd.