Playing in the orchestra for last Monday’s performance of Giacomo Puccini’s opera Gianni Schicchi was a new experience for many of the musicians in the Music School Festival Orchestra.
The added dynamic of singers from the Voice Program created the opportunity for these student musicians to learn how to be flexible to nuances in phrasing and tempo.
The Wednesday-night voice concert series continues at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Fletcher Music Hall with a recital that is all about chamber music.
This will be the first opportunity for students in the Voice Program, who up until now have performed in these recitals with only piano accompaniment, to enter the ensemble frame of mind. The singers will perform with various chamber groups from the School of Music.
Magic flutes, valkyries, rampant consumption — some themes in opera can be hard to relate to, and not just for the audience.
Singers, like actors, perform best when they can lose themselves in a character — when they can find that common thread that connects them with their role. But how do you find something in common with a 13th-century family in Florence?
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