PERFORMING OPERA

This book provides a detailed and practical workbook to performing many of the most commonly produced operas. Drawing on examples fr om 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 celebrate d directors, Performing Opera provides readers with an appreciation of the unique challenges and skills required by performers and d irectors....[Read more]