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professional techniques and considerations
Techniques. Knowing the score ; Recitatives : practical methods for teaching them ; Interlude one : decorum ; Planning coaching sessions, playing staging rehearsals and following a conductor : the stage director's perspective ; The art of auditioning ; Interlude two : dealing with the diva/divo -- Considerations. Interlude three : comparing composer styles ; Baroque operas and Mozart ; Interlude four : The issue of straight tones ; The bel canto movement ; Interlude five : "Park and bark" ; Verdi ; Interlude six : the vanishing of large voices ; French opera ; Mussorgsky and the Russians ; Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss ; Puccini and the verismo school ; Operettas ; Benjamin Britten and other modern composers -- Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss ; Interlude seven : Opera in translation ; Conclusions.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-202) and index.