Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Note on the English edition
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Miscellaneous Frontmatter
- What is opera?
- The heart
- The seven ‘W’ s
- Sense and sensuality
- Bodies in space
- Movement
- Le physique du rôle
- Discomfort and inconvenience
- Bank robbers
- Pretend theatre
- The ‘trizophrenic’ upbeat
- The complete music-actor
- Mozart
- Recitative
- Being comic
- ‘Too many notes …’
- Dramaturgy
- Breaking the rules
- The harmony of the spheres
- In place of an epilogue: My teachers
- APPENDIX 1 All the ‘useful rules’ in overview, for those who make opera
- APPENDIX 2 A masterclass in opera, for those who love it or hate it
- Index of names and works
Miscellaneous Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2017
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Note on the English edition
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Miscellaneous Frontmatter
- What is opera?
- The heart
- The seven ‘W’ s
- Sense and sensuality
- Bodies in space
- Movement
- Le physique du rôle
- Discomfort and inconvenience
- Bank robbers
- Pretend theatre
- The ‘trizophrenic’ upbeat
- The complete music-actor
- Mozart
- Recitative
- Being comic
- ‘Too many notes …’
- Dramaturgy
- Breaking the rules
- The harmony of the spheres
- In place of an epilogue: My teachers
- APPENDIX 1 All the ‘useful rules’ in overview, for those who make opera
- APPENDIX 2 A masterclass in opera, for those who love it or hate it
- Index of names and works
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Crafty Art of Opera , pp. xPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2016