Opera Scenes for Class and Stage - Softcover

Wallace, Mary Elaine; Wallace, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809332809 ISBN 13: 9780809332809

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Musically sound and fully annotated, this new reference work provides ready access to over 700 excerpts from 100 operas, by voice categories, and thus provides information on a wide variety of matters of interest to directors, teach­ers, and singers. A table of voice cate­gories, coded excerpts (including length and reference to accessible scores), char­acter descriptions (including estimations of degrees of difficulty of the music), summaries of the action of each excerpt, and indexes to titles, composers, and well-known arias and ensembles make this book an indispensable tool.

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About the Author

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Mary Elaine Wallace-House was a professor of music and director of the Marjorie Lawrence Opera Theatre at SIUC from 1969-1979. She served as the first woman president of the National Opera Association and was producer and stage director of many operas and programs of opera scenes. She died in 2007.

Robert Wallace made his debut as a piano soloist with the New Orleans Philharmonic at the age of sixteen and performed many solo recitals, as well as being affiliated with the New York City Opera, the San Francisco Opera, and others. He was also a much sought-after vocal coach. He died in 1995.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809332809
• ISBN 13: 9780809332809
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 310