Staging Scenes From The Operas Of Mozart
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Staging Scenes From The Operas Of Mozart
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Author : William Ferrara
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2014-05-08
Staging Scenes From The Operas Of Mozart written by William Ferrara and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-08 with Music categories.
In Staging Scenes from the Operas of Mozart: A Guide for Teachers and Singers, opera director William Ferrara offers the perfect resource for the dramatic preparation of opera scenes for directors and student performers. Topics include study and research, rehearsal planning, blocking, characterization, and costuming for four of Mozart’s most popular operas. He surveys basic concepts of opera acting and directing and provides a step-by-step guide to the rehearsal process. While much has appeared on the history and musical performance practice of the operas of Mozart, no guide to the directing and acting of his operas—with simple, concise staging instructions and practical information concerning casting, props, and costumes—has yet seen publication. Featuring over one hundred illustrations, including costume designs by Martha Ferrara, the author breaks new ground for student performers and directors alike, as he walks readers through the process of staging scenes from Mozart’s operas. The first part of the guide, which focuses on study and preparation, comprisess five chapters: ideas for organizing the opera class, a description of the job of the director, a step-by-step review of the rehearsal process, a set of five exercises for researching and analyzing the scenes, and a vocabulary for actors and directors. The next four sections of the book consist of detailed staging guides for a selection of scenes from Mozart’s most frequently performed operas: Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, and Die Zauberflöte. The introduction to each scene includes a brief discussion of the story and characters, suggestions for costuming, and minimal set and props. The heart of this guide is the text and translation of each scene, embedded with line-by-line acting notes, and blocking directions and diagrams. These are for use by the actors during speaking and blocking rehearsals and are especially valuable when rehearsing recitatives. Intended for college and university voice teachers seeking guidance for developing a scenes program or opera workshop class, this is also the perfect workbook for students studying opera stage direction, as well as graduate and undergraduate students performing opera scenes by Mozart.
Staging Scenes From The Operas Of Donizetti And Verdi
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Author : William Ferrara
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2016-10-26
Staging Scenes From The Operas Of Donizetti And Verdi written by William Ferrara and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-26 with Music categories.
In Staging Scenes from the Operas of Donizetti and Verdi, veteran opera director William Ferrarapresents a detailed, practical exploration of the staging of twenty-one scenes from two of opera’s most beloved composers. He brings to life Donizetti’s delightful comedies, L’Elisir d’amore and Don Pasquale, and guides us throughthe haunted world of Lucia di Lammmermoor. He explores Verdi’s dark themes and imagery in scenes from Rigoletto, and the heartbreaking choices of the characters in La traviata. With signature comic touches, vivid characters, and dynamic stage action, Ferrara brings tried-and-true techniques as well as lively new ideas to these favorite scenes. Topics include study and research, rehearsal planning, blocking, characterization, ideas for simplified sets and props, and costume design. The introduction to each of the five operas includes a brief description of the story and characters, and suggestions for several different approaches to staging—both traditional and modern. The heart of each chapter is the text and translation of the scene, embedded with line-by-line notes on character, movement, emotion, and interaction. This fresh approach to staging an opera scene by applying insights and ideas directly to the text sparks the student’s dramatic imagination and inspires a deeper understanding of the connection between words and music. In addition, by exploring creative improvisations, exercises and contemporary parallels, young performers are encouraged to build more authentic and dynamic performances. Intended for college and university voice teachers seeking guidance for developing a scenes program or opera workshop class, this is also the perfect workbook for students studying opera stage direction, as well as graduate and undergraduate students performing opera scenes by Donizetti and Verdi.
Showdown At Dawn
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Author : Catherine Coe
language : en
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Release Date : 2011
Showdown At Dawn written by Catherine Coe and has been published by Hodder & Stoughton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Children's stories categories.
In Staging Scenes from the Operas of Mozart: A Guide for Teachers and Singers, opera director and scholar William Ferrara offers the perfect resource for the dramatic preparation of opera scenes for directors and student performers. Topics include the study and research, rehearsal planning, blocking, characterization, and costuming for Mozart's operas. He surveys basic concepts of opera acting and directing, along with a step-by-step guide to the rehearsal process. While much has appeared on the history and musical performance practice of the operas of Mozart, no guide to the directing and performing of his operas--with simple, concise staging instructions, and practical information concerning casting, props, and costumes--has yet seen publication.Featuring over 100 illustrations, including suggested costume designs, Ferrara breaks new ground for student and scholar, peformer and director alike, as he walks readers through the staging of Mozart's operas. The first part of the guide focuses on the preparation of the scenes, comprising five chapters on the organizing of the opera class staging the work, a description of the job of the director, a step-by-step review of the rehearsal process, a set of five exercises for researching and analyzing the scenes, and a vocabulary for actors and directors. The next four sections of the book consist of detailed staging guides for a selection of scenes from Mozart's most frequently performed operas: Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, and Die Zauberflöte. The introduction to each scene includes a brief discussion of the story and characters, suggestions for costuming, and minimal set and props. The heart of this guide is the text of the scenes with acting translations, embedded with line-by-line acting notes and blocking directions. This work is thus designed to be used as a script by the actors in improvisation and blocking rehearsals and is especially useful for recitative rehearsal. Intended for college and university voice teachers seeking guidance for developing a scenes program in any opera workshop class, it is the perfect workbook for voice students studying opera stage direction, as well as graduate and undergraduate student performers performing opera scenes from Mozart.
Mozart On The Stage
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Author : János Liebner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Mozart On The Stage written by János Liebner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Composers categories.
"This engrossing study of the operas of Mozart spans the whole of the composer's career, from the very early works composed while he was still a child to his last years and the extraordinarily creative period that produced The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, and The Magic Flute. As Mozart's knowledge of the stage grew and as his musical talent developed, his operas became more subtle and sophisticated, revealing the composer's consummate mastery of the techniques of both opera seria and opera buffa, as well as of the many other forms of musical drama popular at the time. Liebner leads the reader through the various stages of Mozart's development as a composer for the stage and shows how Mozart moved beyond a sound knowledge of contemporary forms and technique to advance the evolution of operatic technique and achievement. MOZART ON THE STAGE opens with a brief discussion of Mozart's role as an artist in the latter half of the eighteenth century. An admirer of Jean Jacques Rousseau and a contemporary of Schiller, Mozart broke away from the traditional system of aristocratic patronage in the conviction that an artist should be free and independent, responsible only to himself for the content and form of his work. Although this cost Mozart a life of comparative comfort and security, Liebner argues that the effects of Mozart's revolutionary stance can be traced throughout the work written for the stage. In an early chapter, Liebner sets out Mozart's approach to opera and his belief that the libretto and staging were always subordinate to the music. This is illustrated by detailed analysis of the early works and by individual chapters devoted to discussion of each of the major works, including The Abduction from the Seraglio, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, and The Magic Flute. The operas are examined with respect to both their musical and their dramatic content and are related to dominant social and dramatic conventions of the time. The author shows how Mozart utilized the entire range of musical means at hand to create, often from mediocre librettos, some of the most remarkable operas in musical history. In his approach to each opera, Liebner stresses the particular dramatic or musical technique that contributes to an understanding of Mozart's achievements in this genre, showing both how the young Mozart was influenced by contemporary musical trends and how he influenced and shaped eighteenth-century opera. In his fascinating chapters on The Magic Flute, the author compares Mozart's last opera to Shakespeare's The Tempest, pointing to similarities in concept and structure that illuminate and enrich our appreciation of Mozart's 'swan-song.' MOZART ON THE STAGE will be a welcome volume to music-lovers and students as well as opera-goers--to anyone, in brief, who is interested in Mozart's development as an opera-composer or in the operas themselves."--Dust jacket.
Rocky Rodeo
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Author : Catherine Coe
language : en
Publisher: Orchard Books
Release Date : 2011
Rocky Rodeo written by Catherine Coe and has been published by Orchard Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Amusement rides categories.
In Staging Scenes from the Operas of Mozart: A Guide for Teachers and Singers, opera director and scholar William Ferrara offers the perfect resource for the dramatic preparation of opera scenes for directors and student performers. Topics include the study and research, rehearsal planning, blocking, characterization, and costuming for Mozart's operas. He surveys basic concepts of opera acting and directing, along with a step-by-step guide to the rehearsal process. While much has appeared on the history and musical performance practice of the operas of Mozart, no guide to the directing and performing of his operas--with simple, concise staging instructions, and practical information concerning casting, props, and costumes--has yet seen publication.Featuring over 100 illustrations, including suggested costume designs, Ferrara breaks new ground for student and scholar, peformer and director alike, as he walks readers through the staging of Mozart's operas. The first part of the guide focuses on the preparation of the scenes, comprising five chapters on the organizing of the opera class staging the work, a description of the job of the director, a step-by-step review of the rehearsal process, a set of five exercises for researching and analyzing the scenes, and a vocabulary for actors and directors. The next four sections of the book consist of detailed staging guides for a selection of scenes from Mozart's most frequently performed operas: Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, and Die Zauberflöte. The introduction to each scene includes a brief discussion of the story and characters, suggestions for costuming, and minimal set and props. The heart of this guide is the text of the scenes with acting translations, embedded with line-by-line acting notes and blocking directions. This work is thus designed to be used as a script by the actors in improvisation and blocking rehearsals and is especially useful for recitative rehearsal. Intended for college and university voice teachers seeking guidance for developing a scenes program in any opera workshop class, it is the perfect workbook for voice students studying opera stage direction, as well as graduate and undergraduate student performers performing opera scenes from Mozart.
Mozart On The Stage
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Author : Christopher Benn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Mozart On The Stage written by Christopher Benn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Music categories.
Mozart S Operas
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Author : Daniel Heartz
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1990
Mozart S Operas written by Daniel Heartz and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Renowned Mozart scholar Daniel Heartz brings his deep knowledge of social history, theater, and art to a study of the last and great decade of Mozart's operas. Mozart specialists will recognize some of Heartz's best-known essays here; but six pieces are new for the collection, and others have been revised and updated with little-known documents on the librettist's, composer's, and stage director's craft. All lovers of opera will value the elegance and wit of Professor Heartz's writing, enhanced by thirty-seven illustrations, many from his private collection. The volume includes Heartz's classic essay on Idomeneo (1781), the work that continued to inspire and sustain Mozart through his next, and final, six operas. Thomas Bauman brings his special expertise to a discussion of Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1782). The ten central chapters are devoted to the three great operas composed to librettos by Lorenzo da Ponte—Le nozze di Figaro (l786), Don Giovanni (l787), and Così fan tutte (l790). The reader is treated to fresh insights on da Ponte's role as Mozart's astute and stage-wise collaborator, on the singers whose gifts helped shape each opera, and on the musical connections among the three works. Parallels are drawn with some of the greatest creative artists in other fields, such as Molière, Watteau, and Fragonard. The world of the dance, one of Heartz's specialties, lends an illuminating perspective as well. Finally, the essays discuss the deep spirituality of Mozart's last two operas, Die Zauberflöte and La Clemenza di Tito (both l79l). They also address the pertinence of opera outside Vienna at the end of the century, the fortunes and aspirations of Freemasonry in Austria, and the relation of Mozart's overtures to the dramaturgy of the operas.
The Complete Operas Of Mozart
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Author : Charles Osborne
language : en
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Release Date : 1978
The Complete Operas Of Mozart written by Charles Osborne and has been published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Music categories.
Charles Osborne provides detailed descriptions of the major operas by Mozart in a volume that serves as both a biography and a critical guide to the composer's oeuvre. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
The Signifier And The Signified
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Author : F. Noske
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
The Signifier And The Signified written by F. Noske and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Music categories.
The studies collected in this volume deal with the interpretation of opera. In most cases the results are based on structural analysis, a concept which may require some clarification in this context. During the past de cade 'structure' and 'structural' have become particularly fashionable terms lacking exact denotation and used for the most divergent purposes. As employed here, structural analysis is concerned with such concepts as 'relationship', 'coherence' and 'continuity', more or less in contrast to formal analysis which deals with measurable material. In other words, I have analysed the structure of an opera by seeking and examining factors in the musico-dramatic process, whereas analysts of form are generally preoccupied with the study of elements contained in the musical object. Though admittedly artificial, the dichotomy of form and structure may elucidate the present situation with regard to the study of opera. Today, nearly one hundred years after the death of Wagner, the proclaimed anti thesis of Oper und Drama is generally taken for what it really was: a means to propagate the philosophy of its inventor. The conception of opera (whether 'continuous' or composed of 'numbers') as a special form of drama is no longer contested. Nevertheless musical scholarship has failed to draw the consequences from this view and few scholars realize the need to study general theory of drama and more specifically the dramatic experience.
Recognition In Mozart S Operas
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Author : Jessica Waldoff
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2006-04-13
Recognition In Mozart S Operas written by Jessica Waldoff and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-13 with Music categories.
'Recognition in Mozart's Operas' is a thoughful treatise that uses both literary and musicological methods to illuminate some of Mozart's best-loved operas. Waldoff argues that, rather than offering the simple happy endings or tragic climaxes of 'easier' operas, many of Mozart's work features scenes of recognition-moments.
