Staging Scenes from the Operas of Mozart: A Guide for by William Ferrara,Martha Ferrara

Featuring over 100 illustrations, together with dress designs through Martha Ferrara, the writer breaks new flooring for pupil performers and administrators alike, as he walks readers throughout the means of staging scenes from Mozart’s operas. the 1st a part of the consultant, which makes a speciality of learn and guidance, comprisess 5 chapters: principles for organizing the opera type, an outline of the activity of the director, a step by step evaluation of the practice session method, a suite of 5 workouts for learning and interpreting the scenes, and a vocabulary for actors and administrators. the following 4 sections of the booklet encompass specific staging courses for a range of scenes from Mozart’s most often played operas: Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, and Die Zauberflöte. The advent to every scene contains a short dialogue of the tale and characters, feedback for costuming, and minimum set and props. the center of this consultant is the textual content and translation of every scene, embedded with line-by-line performing notes, and blockading instructions and diagrams. those are to be used by means of the actors in the course of conversing and blocking off rehearsals and are specifically worthy while rehearsing recitatives.

Intended for school and collage voice lecturers looking counsel for constructing a scenes software or opera workshop category, this is often additionally the fitting workbook for college students learning opera degree course, in addition to graduate and undergraduate scholars acting opera scenes via Mozart.