TY - BOOK ID - 135604332 TI - Performing opera PY - 2016 SN - 1474239102 9781474239103 9781474239110 1474239110 9781474239097 1474239099 1474239099 9781474239080 1474239080 9781474239073 1474239072 PB - London New York DB - UniCat KW - Acting in opera. KW - Opera KW - Production and direction. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135604332 AB - In Performing Opera: A Practical Guide for Singers and Directors Michael Ewans provides a detailed and practical workbook to performing many of the most commonly produced operas. Drawing on examples from twenty-four operas ranging in period from Gluck and Mozart to Britten and Tippett, it illustrates exactly how opera functions as dramatic form. Grounded in close analyses of performances of thirty scenes and five whole operas by first-rate singers and celebrated directors, Performing Opera provides readers with an appreciation of the unique challenges and skills required by performers and directors. It will assist them in their own performance and equip them with detailed knowledge of works most commonly featured in the repertoire. In the first part of the book the analysis progresses from scenes in which the singers are silent, via arias and monologues, duets and confrontations, up to ensembles. Wider issues are subsequently addressed: encounters with offstage events, encounters with the numinous, characterization, and the sense of inevitability in tragic opera. ER -