The Singing and Acting Handbook

The Singing and Acting Handbook helps the performer to 12velop the skills required to act and sing at the same time It will strengthen the performer in individual areas such as imagination, spontaneity, awareness, and concentration the exercises look beyond the separate arts of singing and acting, and help build up an awareness of how the two can combine to form a single, powerful, expression the games explore the coordination of rhythm, pulse, pitch, harmony, text, emotional impulse, and characterisation on stage unique amongst practical handbooks, this volume addresses crucial topics such as the unification of real time and musical time; moving from speech to song; sustaining emotion while singing; and combining free dramatic expression with fixed musical structures it is a long-awaited and urgently needed set of resources for the performer.

Author Biography

Thomas de Mallet Burgess works internationally as a freelance director and workshop leader in opera, musicals and spoken theatre. In the UK he has worked for the Royal Opera House, Opera North, Welsh National Opera, the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Nicholas Skilbeck works internationally as a musical director, composer, vocal coach and pianist. He has worked for Cameron Mackintosh as Musical Director of Cafsand has led workshops in opera and musical theatre for Opera North, the Studio des Varietes in Paris, and the Royal Academy of Music.