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Insights into an opera stage director’s work from an internationally acclaimed director and teacher.
Opera is nowadays performed worldwide. But as an art form it is little understood by performers and audiences alike.
The Crafty Art of Opera wants to change that. Here, Michael Hampe brings glimpses of the director’s work to a wider audience, uncovering the many techniques and rules that should inform an opera’s staging: the need for singers to know their orchestra, the importance of space around singers, the gestures of languages, what we all can learn from Mozart, and the primacy of sense over effect, to name but a few. He shows how stories, through music, become tangible and real.
Packed with many anecdotes from the author’s luminous career, this book is dedicatedto opera-lovers who want to understand ’how it is done’; to opera-makers who want to better understand their craft; and, last but not least, to those who loathe opera, in order to prove them wrong. Eminently readable, it brings both insight and wit from a life spent in opera as director and teacher.
MICHAEL HAMPE is an internationally acclaimed opera stage director.
The Crafty Art of Opera was published in German as
Opernschule.
Opera is nowadays performed worldwide. But as an art form it is little understood by performers and audiences alike.
The Crafty Art of Opera wants to change that. Here, Michael Hampe brings glimpses of the director’s work to a wider audience, uncovering the many techniques and rules that should inform an opera’s staging: the need for singers to know their orchestra, the importance of space around singers, the gestures of languages, what we all can learn from Mozart, and the primacy of sense over effect, to name but a few. He shows how stories, through music, become tangible and real.
Packed with many anecdotes from the author’s luminous career, this book is dedicatedto opera-lovers who want to understand ’how it is done’; to opera-makers who want to better understand their craft; and, last but not least, to those who loathe opera, in order to prove them wrong. Eminently readable, it brings both insight and wit from a life spent in opera as director and teacher.
MICHAEL HAMPE is an internationally acclaimed opera stage director.
The Crafty Art of Opera was published in German as
Opernschule.
€27.99
Innehållsförteckning
PrefaceWhat is opera?
The heart
The seven ’W’s
Sense and sensuality
Bodies in space
Movement
Le physique du rôle
Discomfort and inconvenience
Bank robbers
Pretend theatre
The ’trizophrenic’ upbeat
The complete music-actor
Mozart
Recitative
Being comic
’Too many notes…’
Dramaturgy
Breaking the rules
The harmony of the spheres
In place of an epilogue: my teachers
Appendix 1: All the ’useful rules’ in overview, for those who make opera
Appendix 2: A masterclass in opera, for those who love it or hate it
Index of names and works
Om författaren
Chris Walton studied at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Zurich and Munich. He was head of the Music Department of the Zentralbibliothek Zürich for ten years before being appointed chair of music at the University of Pretoria. He moved back to Switzerland in 2008 and lives today in Solothurn. He is an Honorary Professor at Africa Open Institute (Stellenbosch University) and runs two research projects at the Bern University of the Arts for the Swiss National Science Foundation. He has published widely on Austro-German and Swiss music.
Språk Engelska ● Formatera EPUB ● Sidor 197 ● ISBN 9781782048046 ● Filstorlek 30.1 MB ● Översättare Chris Walton ● Utgivare Boydell & Brewer ● Stad Woodbridge ● Land GB ● Publicerad 2016 ● Nedladdningsbara 24 månader ● Valuta EUR ● ID 5219578 ● Kopieringsskydd Adobe DRM
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