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Creating Opera for the Web / Creating Opera for the Web: Au Web ce soir – Ursule 1.1 and Actéon
Titre original : « Créer un spectacle lyrique pour le web. Sur Au Web ce soir – Ursule 1.1 et Actéon ». Traduction du français par Sofija Perovic. / International audience
Integration of Arts and Health Sciences in Developing an Opera on Veteran Resilience and Recovery.
Published in Health promotion practice
There is an emerging literature on research interviews to inform arts projects, but little on opera. This case study illustrates how research data informed an opera on Veteran recovery. Deidentified interviews were selected from 280 adults with a history of depression at 10-year follow-up to a randomized trial. Interviews were used to inform charac...
Integration of Arts and Health Sciences in Developing an Opera on Veteran Resilience and Recovery.
There is an emerging literature on research interviews to inform arts projects, but little on opera. This case study illustrates how research data informed an opera on Veteran recovery. Deidentified interviews were selected from 280 adults with a history of depression at 10-year follow-up to a randomized trial. Interviews were used to inform charac...
La Sulamita: Failure and Formation in Joaquín Turina’s First and Nearly Forgotten Biblical Opera
Spanish nationalist composer Joaquín Turina (1882-1949) is renowned for his Franco-Andalusian style; however, much less is known about his life and compositions before he studied in Paris and developed his signature sound. Turina’s early zarzuelas, La Copla (1904) and Fea y con gracia (1905), are often regarded as his earliest stage works; however,...
Foreign Concepts: Saverio Mercadante and the Seeds of Modern Lyric-Theatrical Spanishness
Determined to resuscitate its Ópera Italiana, Madrid serendipitously engaged no less a figure than Saverio Mercadante (1795-1870) to direct its inaugural season, in April 1826. As its first celebrity composer in recent memory, he spearheaded important successes that reaffirmed the institution’snecessity and enduring popularity, within weeks. Histo...
Coloratura
In this research I challenged myself in order to achieve a better understanding of singing coloratura and searched for different techniques that would help me on the way. I found that for me there are five key elements that I explored further : energy, connection and clarity of sound, avoiding the tension, column of air and patience.
Vad händer på berget Olympos : Writing and producing a performance for a baroque ensemble
My work consists of the research of how to effectively write new material for a small baroque opera ensemble. How to make it possible to create a storyline that embarks through contrasting arias and duets from different arias with different synopsis.
“A contribution to the embodiment of madness in opera”
Mad scenes, mental illness and their consequences are frequently portrayed in opera. In my opinion, every time mental illness is embodied in any media, there is an associated responsibility to do research and to one’s best ability try to understand what mental illness does to those afflicted. To widen our minds to all the peculiarities of the human...
