商品簡介
Staging Scenes from the Operas of Mozart: A Guide for Teachers and Singers is a guide for the dramatic preparation and performance of opera scenes for directors and student performers. Topics include study and preparation, rehearsal planning, blocking, characterization, and costuming. Basic concepts of acting and directing are introduced, along with a step-by-step guide to the rehearsal process. Much has been written regarding the history and musical performance practice of the operas of Mozart. Not available until now has been a guide to directing and performing with simple, concise staging instructions, and practical information concerning casting, props, and costumes. Staging Scenes from the Operas of Mozart undoes this gap in opera instruction.
作者簡介
William Ferrara is associate professor of music and director of opera theatre at the University 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.
