The crafty art of opera
Subtitle: for those who make it, love it or hate it
By: Michael Hampe ; translated by Chris Walton
Contributors: Walton, Chris, 1963- translator
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781783270972
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Opera; Production and direction
Work titles: Opernschule
Description: Hampe brings glimpses of the opera stage director's work into view, discussing the many techniques and rules that inform an opera's staging. Packed with many anecdotes from the author's luminous career, the book is dedicated to opera-lovers who want to understand 'how it is done'; to opera-makers who want to better understand their craft; and, above all, to those who loathe opera, in order to prove them wrong.
Notes: Translated from the German. First published as: Opernschule : für Liebhaber, Macher and Verächter des Musiktheaters. Köln-Weimar-Wien : Böhlau Verlag, 2015.

Includes index of names and works.
Table of contents: title: What is opera?; title: The heart; title: The seven 'W's; title: Sense and sensuality; title: Bodies in space; title: Movement; title: Le physique du rôle; title: Discomfort and inconvenience; title: Bank robbers; title: Pretend theatre; title: The 'trizophrenic' upbeat; title: The complete music-actor; title: Mozart; title: Recitative; title: Being comic; title: 'Too many notes...'; title: Dramaturgy; title: Breaking the rules; title: The harmony of the spheres; title: In place of an epilogue : My teachers; title: Appendix 1. All the 'useful rules' in overview, for those who make opera; title: Appendix 2. A masterclass in opera, for those who love it or hate it.