Master Singers: Advice from the Stage
Donald George and Lucy Mauro
Abstract
This book contains the results of interviews with twenty-one of today’s top international opera singers. With questions centered on what must be done to perform on the major stages of the world, the artists offer practical and concise advice on a variety of performance-related topics. Six chapters cover questions on vocal technique, role preparation, recording, recital work, memorization, acting, performance anxiety, and more. The artists interviewed are Stephanie Blythe, Lawrence Brownlee, Nicole Cabell, Joseph Calleja, David Daniels, Joyce DiDonato, Christine Goerke, Denyce Graves, Greer Gri ... More
Keywords: singing, vocal technique, opera, vocal recital, opera singers, vocal performance, vocal pedagogy, comparative vocal pedagogy, opera stage, singer, vocal study
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199324170 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2015 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199324170.001.0001 |
