商品簡介
For singers and coaches, conductors, stage directors, and amateurs and professionals, Cheek, a pianist, vocal coach, and professor of performing arts at the U. of Michigan who specializes in Czech vocal music, provides a performance guide to Czech composer Bedrich Smetana's comic opera, The Bartered Bride. Focusing on Czech and English-language performances, he presents instructions for singing the work in Czech, English translations of the complete libretto and International Phonetic Alphabet for Czech pronunciation, and translations of stage and musical directions. He includes a performance history, synopsis, musical comments, discussion of the roles, and notes on the dances and choreographers. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
A leading expert on Czech vocal music, Timothy Cheek is pianist, vocal coach, and associate professor of performing arts at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater & Dance in Ann Arbor. He is the author of Singing in Czech: A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire (2001) and The Janacek Opera Libretti, volumes I (2003) and II (2004), all published by Scarecrow Press.
