So You Want to Sing Light Opera: A Guide for Performers: So You Want to Sing Linda Lister Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

So You Want to Sing Light Opera

A Guide for Performers

So You Want to Sing Light Opera

A Guide for Performers

Description

So You Want to Sing Light Opera is a concise handbook for performers, teachers, and directors who want to learn more about the delightful genre of light opera, including Viennese operetta, English comic opera, French opéra bouffe, and Spanish zarzuela. Award-winning opera director and singer Linda Lister brings clarity to this often misunderstood and overlooked category of music with detailed information on how to prepare and perform roles with stylistic and musical sensitivity and to deliver spoken dialogue and choreography with confidence.

Lister focuses on the attributes of a light opera performer, light opera singing style, historical references, audition advice, directing insights, extensive repertoire recommendations Singing professionals, teachers, students, conductors, stage directors, coaches, and choreographers will find this book to be an ideal resource for the style.

The So You Want to Sing seriesis produced in partnership with the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Like all books in the series, So You Want to Sing Light Opera features online supplemental material on the NATS website. Please visit www.nats.org to access style-specific exercises, audio and video files, and additional resources.

Chapter 1 – Defining Light Opera, Matthew Hoch
Chapter 2 – Singing Light Opera
Chapter 3 – Acting and Dialogue
Chapter 4 – Dance and Movement
Chapter 5 – Stylistic Considerations
Chapter 6 – Auditioning for Light Opera
Chapter 7 – Directing Light Opera
Chapter 8 – Zarzuela, Christopher Webber
Chapter 9 – Singing and Voice Science, Scott McCoy
Chapter 10 – Vocal Health for the Light Opera Singer, Wendy LeBorgne
Appendix A – Light Opera Repertoire Lists
Appendix B – “Top 10” and “Top 40” Lists of Light Opera
Appendix C – Audition Aria Lists by Voice Types
Appendix D – Selected Discography and Bibliography
Appendix E – Where to Sing (and See) Light Opera

Product details

Published	Jan 15 2018
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	288
ISBN	9781442269385
Imprint	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions	9 x 6 inches
Series	So You Want to Sing
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Linda Lister

Foreword

Keith Jameson

So You Want to Sing Light Opera is well researched and well written. Lister, who has extensive experience in this genre, provides a wide range of information for performers who are interested in light opera. It is highly recommended.

Journal of Singing
This book offers an absolutely encyclopedic knowledge of light opera and is a must for any serious singer! Solid material and guidance that will help steer you through your performing career and right into the role of your dreams.

Skip Galla, artistic director, Sin City Opera
An invaluable guide to light opera in all its sub-genres, this exhaustive, but not exhausting, resource will whet the appetite of students, teachers, music & stage directors, and performers of all levels. Linda Lister's love for this art form is palpable. Her seemingly endless expertise combines with other experts in the field to make this book indispensable!

Copeland Woodruff, director of opera studies, Lawrence University
SYWTS has released another valuable resource in their Light Opera volume. Along with concise overviews of the genre and its subcategories, this multifaceted exploration of Light Opera includes lists of familiar and unfamiliar repertoire and monologues by voice type and advice for selecting editions. Lister's writing style is charming and makes humorous use of contemporary references. Particularly useful is the chapter on Zarzuela by Christopher Webber which provides not only an interesting history of the genre but a guide to technical requirements for singing this music. The SYWTS series belongs on every teacher's bookshelf!

Mitra Sadeghpour, director of Opera, University of Northern Iowa