Staging Voice
- Author: Grover-Friedlander, Michal
Staging Voice
- Author: Grover-Friedlander, Michal
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About
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.
Contents
- Introduction
- Directing Opera
- Staging Voice
- Chapter 1: Staging A Vulnerable Voice: Weill and Brecht’s Der Jasager (1930)
- ‘Music… goes its own vast peaceful way’
- Translations and Transformations
- Consent
- Yes and No
- Yes-singing and Mute Agreement
- Doubling and Muteness
- Death
- The Gesture
- Acrobat, Measure, Distance, Scale
- Chapter 2: Binding the Voice: Ficarra and Whittington’s The Empress’s Feet (1995)
- A Voice for the Feet
- The Empress’s Feet
- Sleepwalking Feet
- Sleepwalking Empress
- Foot-binding
- Castrati
- Fold
- Soaring Voice
- Hollowed-out voice
- Aerial Acrobat
- Chapter 3: Staging Thought in Satie’s Socrate (1919)
- Enigmatic Work
- Flexible Timbre
- Satie’s Plato
- Marsyas
- Cicadas
- Swan Song
- Nietzsche’s Socrates
- White
- Furniture Music
- Respectful Silence
- Restaging Socrate
- Voice and Music Echoed in Staging and Set
- Staging Musical Myth
- Staging Socrates’s Death
- Reference List
- Index
