Staging Voice

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