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An Interpretive Guide to Operatic Arias: A Handbook for Singers, Coaches, Teachers, and Students Hardcover - 1990

by Martial Singher


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A premier singer and master teacher here tells other singers how to get the most from 151 famous arias selected for their popularity or their greatness from 66 operas, ranging in time and style from Christopher Gluck to Carlisle Floyd, from Mozart to Menotti. "The most memorable thrills in an opera singer's life," according to the author's Introduction, "may easily derive from the great arias in his or her repertoire."

This book continues the work Martial Singher has done, in performances, in concerts, and in master classes and lessons, by drawing attention "not only to precise features of text, notes, and markings but also to psychological motivations and emotional impulses, to laughter and tears, to technical skills, to strokes of genius, and even here and there to variations from the original works that have proved to be fortunate."

For each aria, the author gives the dramatic and musical context, advice about interpretation, and the lyric--with the original language (if it is not English) and an idiomatic American English translation, in parallel columns. The major operatic traditions--French, German, Italian, Russian, and American--are represented, as are the major voice types--soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, bass-baritone, and bass.

The dramatic context is not a mere summary of the plot but is a penetrating and often witty personality sketch of an operatic character in the midst of a situation. The musical context is presented with the dramatic situation in a cleverly integrated way. Suggestions about interpretation, often illustrated with musical notation and phonetic symbols, are interspersed among the author's explication of the music and the action. An overview of Martial Singher's approach--based on fifty years of experience on stage in a hundred roles and in class at four leading conservatories--is presented in his Introduction. As the reader approaches each opera discussed in this book, he or she experiences the feeling of participation in a rehearsal on stage under an urbane though demanding coach and director.

The Interpretive Guide will be of value to professional singers as a source of reference or renewed inspiration and a memory refresher, to coaches for checking and broadening personal impressions, to young singers and students for learning, to teachers who have enjoyed less than a half century of experience, and to opera broadcast listeners and telecast viewers who want to understand what goes into the sounds and sights that delight them.

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  • Title An Interpretive Guide to Operatic Arias: A Handbook for Singers, Coaches, Teachers, and Students
  • Author Martial Singher
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 2nd Pt
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penn State University Press, University Park, PA
  • Date 1990-10
  • ISBN 9780271003511 / 0271003510
  • Weight 2.03 lbs (0.92 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.29 x 7.27 x 1.16 in (26.14 x 18.47 x 2.95 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Singing - Interpretation (Phrasing,, Operas - Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics,
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 82042772
  • Dewey Decimal Code 782.107

About the author

Martial Singher was director of the voice and opera department at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, and served on the faculties of the Curtis Institute of Music, Chicago Musical College, Mannes College, and the Aspen and Marlboro Festivals. He performed with the Paris, Metropolitan, Chicago, and San Francisco Opera Companies and the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires.

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