Staging Voice (Routledge Voice Studies)

Grover-Friedlander, Michal

ISBN 10: 1032034289 / ISBN 13: 9781032034287

Published by Routledge, 2024

About this Item

pages cm [1.] Includes bibliographical references and index.

Seller Inventory # 26398110776

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Staging Voice (Routledge Voice Studies)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032034289
• ISBN 13: 9781032034287
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Staging Voice is a unique approach to the aesthetics of voice and its staging in performance.

This study reflects on what it would mean to take opera’s decisive attribute―voice―as the foundation of its staged performance. The book thinks of staging through the medium of voice. It is a nuances exploration, which brings together scholarly and directorial interpretations, and engages in detail with less frequently performed works of major and influential 20th-century artists―Erik Satie, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill―as well as exposes readers to an innovative experimental work of Evelyn Ficarra and Valerie Whittington. The study is intertwined throughout with the author’s staging of the works accessible online.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in voice studies, opera, music theatre, musicology, directing, performance studies, practice-based research, theatre, visual art, stage design, and cultural studies.

About the Author

Michal Grover-Friedlander is Associate Professor of Musicology and head of the Musicology Department at Tel Aviv University. Her first monograph, Vocal Apparitions: Cinema’s Attraction to Opera, was published by Princeton University Press in 2005. Her second book Operatic Afterlives was published by Zone Books in 2011. She is artistic founder and director of the experimental opera ensemble Ta Opera Zuta.