Jane Marsh Lectures for Metropolitan Opera Guild, October 3 & 10
Theme: Bel Canto, with reference to the Metropolitan Opera's productions of Donizetti's La Fille du régiment and Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia coming this season at the Met.
Dates of Lectures: October 3 & 10
Time: 4:30 to 6:00 PM
Location: Di Capo, 184 East 76Th Street
Ticket Price: $25.00
Our Love
It is not our 'Loves' who sustain us, but our love for them.
Taking Risk & Setting Precedent
Interesting that throughout history innovators of note have usually been risk takers. This is notable in all facets of culture, power, politics, science, spirituality...Those who believed in ideas, trusting introduction of those ideas to wider audiences, very often set precedent in their own areas of expertise as well as on a universal level.
Skill Learning
Focus on 'end results' in any kind of skill learning. Trial and error, negative feedback and temporary failures are remedied by an automatic new course set toward the goal. It is part of the process and time should be allowed for it.
Greatness Ingredient
An ingredient for greatness is mastery of more than one thing, often in more than one area! Each catapults the other into a grander sphere.
Singing is Joy
Singing-even if one is not a singer-reaches the very core of ones being and ignites the unseen energies into a flood of positivism. This JOY is more therapeutic than meets the eye.
Emotional Color Palate
Singing is energetically athletic, but being heard is not the only priority. Interpretive vocal colors open doors of comprehension for those listeners naive to languages and styles they are hearing. Emotional colors enhance the personal identification with the content of a performance. One is touched.
Silence is Discipline
More than over-singing, it is over-talking that takes the bloom off the voice. Removing yourself from the temptation of too much talk and remaining silent, while involved professionally, is a necessary discipline.
Creativity, You & Your Time
As a creative artist, a major key into personally realizing the 'devotion quota' you invest in your craft, is understanding where, with what, and with whom you spend your time and your thoughts.
Knowing Languages
Phrasing with the rhythm of any language, in performance, is enlightened by knowing and speaking that language well. Understanding phonetics alone leaves the world outside your performance, whether you are singer, pianist or conductor.
Love the Process
Love getting there as much as being there.
Career House
At the 'career house foundation', consider the 'career house goals' and understand when to commence planning.
Attire Creates Ambiance
Attire creates the ambiance of a costume for you-private or public-and for your guests-private or public-the ambiance of a set and costume is created.
Change the World Around You
The world around you need not change your uniqueness. Your uniqueness need change the world around you.
Value Yourself
How you speak of yourself is how others will speak of you, and how you treat yourself is how others will treat you.
The Theatrics of Projecting Size
Physical size on-stage is not determined by the reality of actual feet and inches off-stage, but by projecting the physical body language of a character on-stage. One can use an imposing off-stage physique to advantage, on-stage, by incorporating large, emphatic movements, or one can diminish the same individual size, on-stage, by using small, collected movements. The tempo of movement is governed by the character one is portraying.
If ones off-stage stature is actually rather small, the way to increase the on-stage impression of size is vice verse of the above. It has very little to do with off-stage size reality. This is magical theatrics called body language!
Fame vs. Sales
Singularly accrued success and the resulting fame can last indefinitely, but saleability for that accrued success diminishes after two-to-three years.
Identifying You
Every artist needs a 'Look', whether visual or auditory. This sets you apart.
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