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The Magic of Beverly Sills
With her superb coloratura soprano, passion for the world of opera, and down-to-earth personality, Beverly Sills made high art accessible to millions from the time of her meteoric rise to stardom in 1966 until her death in 2007. An unlikely pop culture phenomenon, Sills was equally at ease on talk shows, on the stage, and in the role of arts advocate and administrator. Merging archival research with her own love of Sills's music, Nancy Guy examines the singer-actress's artistry alongside the ineffable aspects of performance that earned Sills a passionate fandom. Guy mines the memories of colleagues, critics, and aficionados to recover something of the spell Sills wove for people on both sides of the footlights during the hot moments of onstage performance. At the same time, she analyzes essential questions raised by Sills's art and celebrity. How did Sills challenge the divide between elite and mass culture and build a fan base that crossed generations and socio-economic lines? Above all, how did Sills capture the unnameable magic that joins the members of an audience to a performer--and to one-another? Intimate and revealing, The Magic of Beverly Sills explores the alchemy of art, magnetism, community, and emotion that produced an American icon.
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Alternative Chinese Opera in the age of globalization : performing zero
\"Bringing the study of Chinese theatre into the 21st-century, Lei discusses ways in which traditional art can survive and thrive in the age of modernization and globalization. Building on her previous work, this new book focuses on various forms of Chinese \"opera\" in locations around the Pacific Rim, including Hong Kong, Taiwan and California\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Divas and scholars
Winner of the 2007 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the 2007 Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. Divas and Scholars is a dazzling and beguiling account of how opera comes to the stage, filled with Philip Gossett’s personal experiences of triumphant—and even failed—performances and suffused with his towering and tonic passion for music. Writing as a fan, a musician, and a scholar, Gossett, the world's leading authority on the performance of Italian opera, brings colorfully to life the problems, and occasionally the scandals, that attend the production of some of our most favorite operas. Gossett begins by tracing the social history of nineteenth-century Italian theaters in order to explain the nature of the musical scores from which performers have long worked. He then illuminates the often hidden but crucial negotiations opera scholars and opera conductors and performers: What does it mean to talk about performing from a critical edition? How does one determine what music to perform when multiple versions of an opera exist? What are the implications of omitting passages from an opera in a performance? In addition to vexing questions such as these, Gossett also tackles issues of ornamentation and transposition in vocal style, the matters of translation and adaptation, and even aspects of stage direction and set design. Throughout this extensive and passionate work, Gossett enlivens his history with reports from his own experiences with major opera companies at venues ranging from the Metropolitan and Santa Fe operas to the Rossini Opera Festival at Pesaro. The result is a book that will enthrall both aficionados of Italian opera and newcomers seeking a reliable introduction to it—in all its incomparable grandeur and timeless allure.
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Heggie and Scheer's Moby-Dick
\"Book describes the world premiere of the American opera based on Melville's novel Moby-Dick, with the same name. Wallace describes the creative process of writing the music and libretto, the rehearsals and stage design, and the opening night in Dallas in May 2010.\"--ECIP Data View, Summary.
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Research on Motion Capture Technology of Peking Opera Performing Arts and Its Practicality Exploration in Opera Physical Training
In this paper, we obtain the form data of famous Peking Opera performers through inertial motion capture technology to construct a standard form library. Sensors are placed in key parts of the body of Peking Opera performers to capture position information, and specific 3D data is obtained after a series of calculations. The long and short-term memory network is also used to solve the problem of form timing, and the captured form data of teachers and students are presented intuitively and visually, so as to study the application of motion capture technology in theatrical form training. Comparative analysis shows that compared with the other two algorithms, the accuracy of the method in this paper has a mean value of 93%. When completing the form exercise “Qiba”, the rate of change of the right knee angle was 0.56 for the student and 0.22 for the teacher. As a result, the teacher’s voice is more consistent. The teacher’s rotational acceleration of the spine is higher than that of the students in the “Shake by Flag” form, showing his/her greater strength. In the movement analysis of “Harrier Turn”, the teacher’s spine vertical angle is bigger.
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Bel Canto and the Art of Singing
Lani examines the origins and history of the bel canto vocal technique, highlighting its spread throughout Europe in the 17th century and the Italian influence on the art of singing. The simultaneous development of bel canto and the operatic form is analyzed, and the further evolution of the vocal technique is chronicled throughout the history of opera. Lani provides excerpts from several sources describing bel canto, thoughts on its style and performance, the art of singing in different kinds of operatic compositions, differing thoughts on singing during various time periods, the fluctuating popularity of bel canto, and explanations of vocal training methods throughout opera history.
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