Opera Lives

ISBN-13: 9781910151716 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 272 str.

Linda KItchen

Spis treści

• Biographies - La favorite, Donizetti
• Prologue - Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs, Nyman
• Act One ‘Shoving us from the jetty’
• Scene One - Family background
• Scene Two - School days
• Scene Three - Defining moment
• Scene Four - Singing study
• Scene Five - Preparing
• Act Two ‘Carry on – it’s going very well’
• Scene One - The unfolding
• Scene Two - Learning the score
• Scene Three - Warming up
• Scene Four - The feeling of singing
• Act Three ‘No good playing Mime as if you’re Brad Pitt’
• Scene One - Character, text, drama
• Scene Two - Body work
• Scene Three - The essence
• Scene Four - Problems
• Scene Five - Humour
• Intermission - by Thomas Allen
• Act Four ‘Goodies and Baddies’
• Scene One - People around you
• Scene Two - Composers
• Scene Three - Conductors
• Scene Four - Directors
• Scene Five - Designers
• Scene Six - Agents
• Scene Seven - Reviewing reviewers
• Act Five ‘Bowls of sushi on a conveyor belt’
• Scene One - Changing paths
• Scene Two - Legacy
• Scene Three - Family
• Scene Four - Life beyond the job
• Scene Five - The future
• Scene Six - Advice
• Epilogue - Hänsel und Gretel, Humperdinck