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Conducting from the Stage

Leave a Comment / Acting techniques, Historical theatre, Melodrama, Recording, Symposium /

(see the first part of this blog here ) Some time ago, I wrote about how in eighteenth-century melodrama the actor pantomimes every single motive of the music and how this realization changed the way I perform and relate to the orchestra. This came about during the rehearsals for Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Le Devin du Village […]

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Leave a Comment / Opera, Recording, Symposium /

Back from Gothenburg, where a group of music and theatre scholars, opera singers and singing coaches got together to discuss ‘vocal color’ in past, present, and future opera. The general opinion was that there is a severe lack of color variety in opera singing today and that this leads to an impoverishment of the expressive

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