Linda Lister

So You Want to Sing Light Opera (eBook, PDF)

A Guide for Performers

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 opéra 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 Lister focuses on the attributes of a light opera performer, light opera singing style, historical references, audition advice, directing insights, extensive repertoire recommendations Singing professionals, teachers, students, conductors, stage directors, coaches, and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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216230403
• Artikelnr.: 74842560

Autorenporträt

Linda Lister is associate professor of voice and director of opera at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is author of So You Want to Sing Light Opera and coauthor of Voice Secrets: 100 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Singer. As a soprano soloist, she appears on the albums The American Soloist, Midnight Tolls, and Moments of Arrival. Also a composer, she sings her own art songs on the Albany Records release Pleas to Famous Fairies.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1
Defining Light Opera, Matthew Hoch Chapter 2
Singing Light Opera Chapter 3
Acting and Dialogue Chapter 4
Dance and Movement Chapter 5
Stylistic Considerations Chapter 6
Auditioning for Light Opera Chapter 7
Directing Light Opera Chapter 8
Zarzuela, Christopher Webber Chapter 9
Singing and Voice Science, Scott McCoy Chapter 10
Vocal Health for the Light Opera Singer, Wendy LeBorgne Appendix A
Light Opera Repertoire Lists Appendix B
"Top 10" and "Top 40" Lists of Light Opera Appendix C
Audition Aria Lists by Voice Types Appendix D
Selected Discography and Bibliography Appendix E
Where to Sing (and See) Light Opera