{"product_id":"an-interpretive-guide-to-operatic-arias-a-handbook-for-singers-coaches-teachers-and-students-9780271003511","title":"An Interpretive Guide to Operatic Arias: A Handbook for Singers  Coaches  Teachers  and Students","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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 singers life  according to the authors 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 lyricwith the original language (if it is not English) and an idiomatic American English translation  in parallel columns. The major operatic traditionsFrench  German  Italian  Russian  and Americanare represented  as are the major voice typessoprano  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 authors explication of the music and the action. An overview of Martial Singhers approachbased on fifty years of experience on stage in a hundred roles and in class at four leading conservatoriesis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648056713269,"sku":"ByrdShop_0271003510","price":102.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780271003511.jpg?v=1781708313","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/an-interpretive-guide-to-operatic-arias-a-handbook-for-singers-coaches-teachers-and-students-9780271003511","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}