(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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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
Bathed by a wet morning sunlight, the Chateau de Dorigny beckoned. Once visited by the luminaires of the 18th century, it now welcomed a group of scholars dedicated to understanding one of the country’s most remarkable thinkers ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau. For me it was the culmination of a long process; an opportunity to reflect on
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