Opera coaching
Subtitle: professional techniques and considerations
By: Alan Montgomery.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Opera coaching
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Techniques. Knowing the score ; Recitatives : practical methods for teaching them ; Interlude one : decorum ; Planning coaching sessions, playing staging rehearsals and following a conductor : the stage director's perspective ; The art of auditioning ; Interlude two : dealing with the diva/divo; title: Considerations. Interlude three : comparing composer styles ; Baroque operas and Mozart ; Interlude four : straight tones ; The bel canto movement ; Interlude five : "Park and bark" ; Verdi ; Interlude six : the vanishing of large voices ; French opera ; Mussorgsky and the Russians ; Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss ; Puccini and the verismo school ; Operettas ; Benjamin Britten and other modern composers; title: Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss ; Opera in translation ; Conclusions.