Staging Scenes from the Operas of Donizetti and Verdi : a Guide for Directors and Performers.
Veteran opera director William Ferrara walks the reader through the staging of twenty-five scenes from two of opera's most beloved composers. He brings to life Donizetti's delightful comedies and guides us through the dark world of Lucia di Lammmermoor. He discusses the hard moral choices...
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Staging scenes from Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore (1832): creating a village
- Staging scenes from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor (1935): incorporating ideas from the novel
- Staging scenes from Donizetti's Don Pasquale (1843): experimenting with three different settings
- Staging scenes from Verdi's Rigoletto (1851): exploring theme and imagery
- Staging scenes from Verdi's La traviata (1853): the actor's process.