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A resource for directors and student performers, this work provides guidance on staging four of Mozart's most popular operas, including concrete suggestions for blocking, characterization and costuming. The author, a professor and opera director himself, surveys basic concepts of opera acting and offers step-by-step instruction for the rehearsal process. Opera America

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William Ferrara is Director of Opera at the University of Oklahoma School of Music. He enjoys an international reputation as a stage director and acting teacher for opera. In his thirty-year career he has directed more than 150 productions of plays, musicals, and operas at colleges and professional theaters across the country and in Italy and South America. Illustrator Martha Ferrara is head of the Undergraduate Costume Design Program at California Institute of the Arts and is an award-winning designer for theater, dance, opera, and film. She is best known for interpreting performance costumes from the works of visual artists, including Oskar Kokoschka, Grandma Moses, and Kasimir Malevich. These costumes have been exhibited at the National Gallery of Art–East Wing, the Smithsonian Institution, and the History of Sculpture exhibit in Basel, Switzerland.

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