So You Want to Sing Light Opera (eBook)
288 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-6939-2 (ISBN)
So You Want to Sing Light Opera is a concise handbook for performers, teachers, and directors who want to learn more about the delightful genre of light opera, including Viennese operetta, English comic opera, French opera bouffe, and Spanish zarzuela. Award-winning opera director and singer Linda Lister brings clarity to this often misunderstood and overlooked category of music with detailed information on how to prepare and perform roles with stylistic and musical sensitivity and to deliver spoken dialogue and choreography with confidence.Lister focuses on the attributes of a light opera performer, light opera singing style, historical references, audition advice, directing insights, extensive repertoire recommendations Singing professionals, teachers, students, conductors, stage directors, coaches, and choreographers will find this book to be an ideal resource for the style.The So You Want to Sing seriesis produced in partnership with the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Like all books in the series, So You Want to Sing Light Opera features online supplemental material on the NATS website. Please visit www.nats.org to access style-specific exercises, audio and video files, and additional resources.
Linda Lister is a performer, author, director, and choreographer of light opera. Her solo credits include performances with the Washington Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, Evansville Philharmonic, Las Vegas Philharmonic, Piedmont Opera Theatre, Opera Theatre of Rochester, Long Leaf Opera, Sin City Opera, Greensboro Oratorio Society, Cambridge Gilbert and Sullivan Society, and Maine State Music Theatre. Winner of the 2014 American Prize in Directing, she directed UNLV Opera to two first place awards in the 2015 National Opera Association Collegiate Opera Scenes Competition in both musical theatre and graduate opera divisions and a second place award in the 2016 NOA Opera Production Competition for her pairing of Trial by Jury with Dan Shore’s The Beautiful Bridegroom.
Chapter 1 – Defining Light Opera, Matthew HochChapter 2 – Singing Light OperaChapter 3 – Acting and DialogueChapter 4 – Dance and MovementChapter 5 – Stylistic ConsiderationsChapter 6 – Auditioning for Light OperaChapter 7 – Directing Light OperaChapter 8 – Zarzuela, Christopher WebberChapter 9 – Singing and Voice Science, Scott McCoyChapter 10 – Vocal Health for the Light Opera Singer, Wendy LeBorgneAppendix A – Light Opera Repertoire ListsAppendix B – “Top 10” and “Top 40” Lists of Light OperaAppendix C – Audition Aria Lists by Voice TypesAppendix D – Selected Discography and BibliographyAppendix E – Where to Sing (and See) Light Opera
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.1.2018 |
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Reihe/Serie | So You Want to Sing |
Vorwort | Keith Jameson |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical |
Schlagworte | can anyone learn to sing • how to sing • learn how to sing • learn to sing • singin app • Singing • singing app • singing lessons • singing tips • train voice • vocal training |
ISBN-10 | 1-4422-6939-1 / 1442269391 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4422-6939-2 / 9781442269392 |
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