Performing Opera: A Practical Guide for Singers and Directors

by Michael Ewans

In Performing Opera: A Practical Guide for Singers and Directors Michael Ewans provides a detailed and practical workbook to performing many of the most commonly produced operas. Drawing on examples from twenty-four operas ranging in period from Gluck and Mozart to Britten and Tippett, it illustrates exactly how opera functions as dramatic form.

Grounded in close analyses of performances of thirty scenes and five whole operas by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474239080
• ISBN13: 9781474239080
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"