The Opera Singer's Acting Toolkit: An Essential Guide to Creating A Role
The complete dramatic toolbox for the opera singer – a step-by-step guide detailing how to create character, from auditions through to rehearsal and performance and formulate a successful career.

Drawing upon the innovative approach to the training of young opera singers developed by Martin Constantine, Co-Director of ENO Opera Works, The Opera Singer's Acting Toolkit leads the singer through the process of bringing the libretto and score to life in order to create character. It draws on the work of practitioners such as Stanislavski, Lecoq, Laban and Cicely Berry to introduce the singer to the tools needed to create an interior and physical life for character. The book draws on operatic repertoire from Handel through Mozart to Britten to present practical techniques and exercises to help the singer develop their own individual dramatic toolbox.

The Opera Singer's Acting Toolkit features interviews with leading conductors, directors, singers and casting agents to offer invaluable insights into the professional operatic world, and advice on how to remain focused on the importance of the work itself.

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The Opera Singer's Acting Toolkit: An Essential Guide to Creating A Role
The complete dramatic toolbox for the opera singer – a step-by-step guide detailing how to create character, from auditions through to rehearsal and performance and formulate a successful career.

Drawing upon the innovative approach to the training of young opera singers developed by Martin Constantine, Co-Director of ENO Opera Works, The Opera Singer's Acting Toolkit leads the singer through the process of bringing the libretto and score to life in order to create character. It draws on the work of practitioners such as Stanislavski, Lecoq, Laban and Cicely Berry to introduce the singer to the tools needed to create an interior and physical life for character. The book draws on operatic repertoire from Handel through Mozart to Britten to present practical techniques and exercises to help the singer develop their own individual dramatic toolbox.

The Opera Singer's Acting Toolkit features interviews with leading conductors, directors, singers and casting agents to offer invaluable insights into the professional operatic world, and advice on how to remain focused on the importance of the work itself.

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The Opera Singer's Acting Toolkit: An Essential Guide to Creating A Role

The Opera Singer's Acting Toolkit: An Essential Guide to Creating A Role

by Martin Constantine
The Opera Singer's Acting Toolkit: An Essential Guide to Creating A Role

The Opera Singer's Acting Toolkit: An Essential Guide to Creating A Role

by Martin Constantine

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The complete dramatic toolbox for the opera singer – a step-by-step guide detailing how to create character, from auditions through to rehearsal and performance and formulate a successful career.

Drawing upon the innovative approach to the training of young opera singers developed by Martin Constantine, Co-Director of ENO Opera Works, The Opera Singer's Acting Toolkit leads the singer through the process of bringing the libretto and score to life in order to create character. It draws on the work of practitioners such as Stanislavski, Lecoq, Laban and Cicely Berry to introduce the singer to the tools needed to create an interior and physical life for character. The book draws on operatic repertoire from Handel through Mozart to Britten to present practical techniques and exercises to help the singer develop their own individual dramatic toolbox.

The Opera Singer's Acting Toolkit features interviews with leading conductors, directors, singers and casting agents to offer invaluable insights into the professional operatic world, and advice on how to remain focused on the importance of the work itself.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350006461
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 10/31/2019
Edition description: Comprehens
Pages: 392
Product dimensions: 6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

Martin Constantine is an award-winning theatre and opera director. He has directed for such companies as the Royal Opera House, Royal Shakespeare Company, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Almeida Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, National Theatre Studio, Chichester Festival Theatre, and Grange Park Opera. He established and is co-Director of ENO Opera Works. Constantine has taught and directed in some of the leading conservatoires throughout the UK and abroad, and is currently International Chair of Directing at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. He is Co-Artistic Director of liveartshow, an award-winning company making new work with music.

ENO Opera Works is a professional development programme for singers who have strong vocal technique and a clear commitment to developing a career in opera. Opera Works encompasses individual coaching sessions and tailored group workshops enabling singers to develop their vocal and dramatic skills in a professional environment, with unprecedented access to the wealth of expertise at ENO, insight into the world of professional opera, and valuable opportunities for dialogue with key people within the company.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements viii

Introduction 1

Part 1 The Tools 11

1 Foundations: Where to Start 11

The Body: Releasing Tension 11

The Mind: Awareness and Focus 25

Imagination 32

Play and Spontaneity 37

2 A Note about Emotion 42

Emotion and Psychology 42

Emotion and the Performer 43

The Process 44

3 Creating Character 46

4 Text and Music 47

Introduction 47

Organising Information: Given Circumstances 48

Organising Information: Other Approaches 62

Organising Information: The Music 68

Objectives 73

Actions 89

Obstacles 106

Points of Concentration 110

Events 114

Further Text Tools 121

Text and Music: Conclusion 125

5 The Body and Movement 127

Introduction 127

Music 129

Laban 130

Lecoq 154

Character Types and Commedia dell'arte 178

The Clown 190

Devising 197

6 Words and Music in Action 209

Part 2 In Practice 239

7 Preparing for Rehearsals 239

The Challenge 240

An Approach 240

Coaching 241

Where to Start 242

8 Rehearsals 254

Expectations 255

Music Calls 255

Rehearsals 256

9 Rehearsals In Depth 272

Rehearsing Recitative 272

Rehearsing Arias 273

Rehearsing Ensembles 282

Rehearsing Chorus 284

Rehearsing Text 286

Rehearsing Translations 287

Rehearsing the Original Language 289

Cover Rehearsals 289

10 Performance 291

Nerves 291

Preparation 291

The Wings 294

Onstage 294

After the Perfomance 296

11 Auditions 298

Preparation 298

Professional Engagement 301

The Composition of an Audition 303

Analysis and Follow-Up 306

Websites 307

Part 3 Interviews 311

12 Repertoire 313

Early Music: Christian Curnyn 313

Mozart: Jane Glover 317

Bel Canto: David Parry 319

Verdi: Carlo Rizzi 322

Twentieth Century: Wyn Davies 325

New Opera: Jonathan Dove 328

13 Approaches to Rehearsal 333

Aletta Collins 333

Leah Hausman 336

Richard Jones 339

Phyllida Lloyd 343

Robin Norton Hale 346

David Pountney 348

14 Singers' Case Studies 353

Kathryn Harries 353

Elizabeth Llewellyn 355

William Morgan 359

Clare Presland 362

Andrew Shore 365

Pablo Strong 368

List of Exercises 370

Further Reading 375

Index 377

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