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OverviewSo 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 Lister focuses on the attributes of a light opera performer, light opera singing style, historical references, audition advice, directing insights, extensive repertoire recommendations Singing professionals, teachers, students, conductors, stage directors, coaches, and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 series is 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Linda Lister , Keith JamesonPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Volume: 10 Dimensions: Width: 15.10cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.431kg ISBN: 9781442269385ISBN 10: 1442269383 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 15 January 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsChapter 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 OperaReviewsThis book offers an absolutely encyclopedic knowledge of light opera and is a must for any serious singer! Solid material and guidance that will help steer you through your performing career and right into the role of your dreams -- Skip Galla, artistic director, Sin City Opera Author InformationLinda Lister is a performer, author, director, and choreographer of light opera. Her solo credits include performances with the Washington Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, Evansville Philharmonic, Las Vegas Philharmonic, Piedmont Opera Theatre, Opera Theatre of Rochester, Long Leaf Opera, Sin City Opera, Greensboro Oratorio Society, Cambridge Gilbert and Sullivan Society, and Maine State Music Theatre. Winner of the 2014 American Prize in Directing, she directed UNLV Opera to two first place awards in the 2015 National Opera Association Collegiate Opera Scenes Competition in both musical theatre and graduate opera divisions and a second place award in the 2016 NOA Opera Production Competition for her pairing of Trial by Jury with Dan Shore’s The Beautiful Bridegroom. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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