Alan Montgomery

Opera Coaching

Professional Techniques for the Répétiteur

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Opera Coaching: Professional Techniques for the Répétiteur, Second Edition, is an update to the first practical guide for opera coaches when working with opera singers to help them meet the physical and vocal demands of a score in order to shape a performance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 183mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780367408848
• ISBN-10: 0367408848
• Artikelnr.: 58380095

Autorenporträt

Alan Montgomery was the Assistant Music Director of the Oberlin Opera Theater for thirty-three years. He has coached a plethora of major singers, such as Denyce Graves, Derrick Lee Ragin, Daniel Okulitch, Todd Thomas, Limmie Pulliam, Edward Parks, and Elizabeth de Shong.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Techniques
Chapter 1: Auditions
Chapter 2: Knowing the Score
Chapter 3: Recitatives
Chapter 4: Planning Coaching Sessions and Playing for Staging Rehearsals
Chapter 5: Following a Conductor
Chapter 6: The Stage Director's Perspective by Victoria Vaughan
Part II: Considerations
Chapter 7: Baroque Operas
Chapter 8: Mozart and Classical Song
Chapter 9: Bel Canto
Chapter 10: Verdi
Chapter 11: French Opera
Chapter 12: Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, and the Five
Chapter 13: Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, and the German School
Chapter 14: Puccini and the Verismo School
Chapter 15: Operettas
Chapter 16: Benjamin Britten and Other Modern Composers
Chapter 17: Looking to the New Demands in the Twenty- First Century
Chapter 18: Ensembles Large and Small
Chapter 19: Conclusions
Appendix A: A List of Vocal Fachs and Their Roles
Appendix B: Notable and Recommended Editions
Appendix C: Favorite Catch Phrases and Buzzwords