Martin Constantine

The Opera Singer's Acting Toolkit (eBook, ePUB)

An Essential Guide to Creating A Role

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The complete dramatic toolbox for the opera singer - a step-by-step guide detailing how to create character, from auditions through to rehearsal and performance and formulate a successful career.

Drawing upon the innovative approach to the training of young opera singers developed by Martin Constantine, Co-Director of ENO Opera Works, The Opera Singer's Acting Toolkit leads the singer through the process of bringing the libretto and score to life in order to create character. It draws on the work of practitioners such as Stanislavski, Lecoq, Laban and Cicely Berry to introduce the singer to the tools needed to create an interior and physical life for character. The book draws on operatic repertoire from Handel through Mozart to Britten to present practical techniques and exercises to help the singer develop their own individual dramatic toolbox.

The Opera Singer's Acting Toolkit features interviews with leading conductors, directors, singers and casting agents to offer invaluable insights into the professional operatic world, and advice on how to remain focused on the importance of the work itself.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350006485
• Artikelnr.: 57806665

Autorenporträt

Martin Constantine is an award-winning theatre and opera director. He has directed for such companies as the Royal Opera House, Royal Shakespeare Company, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Almeida Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, National Theatre Studio, Chichester Festival Theatre, and Grange Park Opera. He established and is co-Director of ENO Opera Works - an innovative training course for young opera singers at English National Opera. Opera Works is now in its tenth year and has trained nearly two hundred singers for work at ENO and beyond. He has taught and directed in some of the leading conservatoires throughout the UK and abroad, and is currently International Chair of Directing at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE: THE TOOLS 1 The Foundations The
Body: Releasing Tension The Mind: Awareness + Focus The Imagination Play
and Spontaneity 2 A Note About Emotion 3 Creating Character 4 Text and
Music Organising Information: Given Circumstances Organising Information:
Other Approaches Organising Information: Music Objectives Actions Obstacles
Points of Concentration Events Further Text Tools Text and Music:
Conclusion 5 The Body and Movement Laban Lecoq Character Types and Commedia
dell'Arte The Clown Devising 6 Words and Music in Action PART TWO: IN
PRACTICE 1 Preparing for Rehearsals 2 Rehearsals 3 Rehearsals in Depth 4
Performance 5 Auditions PART THREE: INTERVIEWS 1 Repertoire Interviews with
Conductors 2 Approaches to Rehearsal Interviews with Directors 3 Singers'
Case Studies List of exercises Further reading Index