Directing performance - interpretation and rehearsal process

Working in three small units comprising director, designer, singer and repetiteur, participants will bring their artistry to the interpretation of opera scenes drawn from different parts of the repertoire, but which may share common themes.

Teams will work intensely on a particular piece of material, to consider what it is, what they think it means, and how to show that to an audience through their choices, for example about context, visuality, and the performing artistry of the singer.

Emerging repetiteurs will also develop their supportive skills as part of each team.

The process will be guided by Tim Hopkins, a UK based practitioner whose work includes opera direction and scenic design, theatre making, moving image, performing, the digital realm and practice as research in a range of contexts (www.timhopkinsworks.com)

The schedule will include opportunities to share ideas about process, work-in progress and outcomes with peers.

Work will take place in various spaces around the Kolarac Endowment, with an informal sharing at the end of week, open to the public.

Depending on the progress of their work, and relationships that emerge between participants’ understandings of the repertoire, this event may have a dramaturgical dimension in itself, for example a site-specific function.

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