Hampe, Michael
The Crafty Art of Opera

For those who make it, love it or hate it. Translated by Chris Walton.

Michael Hampe brings glimpses of the director's work to a wider audience, uncovering the many techniques and rules that should inform an opera's staging: the need for singers to know their orchestra, the importance of space around singers, the gestures of languages, what we all can learn from Mozart, and the primacy of sense over effect, to name but a few. He shows how stories, through music, become tangible and real. Packed with many anecdotes from the author's luminous career, this book is dedicatedto opera-lovers who want to understand 'how it is done'. IX,186 Seiten mit 5 Farb- und 17 s/w-Abb., gebunden (The Boydell Press 2016) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear