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Summary: Enjoy being taken by the hand by a magician-teacher.
Review: I was brought into enjoying Opera by the public master classes by Ms. Dornemann. Those are experiences in colective levitation, when you feel one with a group of public, singers, teachers and composers.The allways positive messages that she delivers (doesn't matter how they are expressed)read: "I am correcting you because you are terrific!" The book brings lots of the experience, insight, common sense, kindness and warmth that makes her more than a great teacher: a true magician. If you have been to one of her master classes, you will love the book, and if you read the book you will buy or borrow or steal a ticket for her master classes
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Summary: Enjoy being taken by the hand by a magician-teacher.
Review: I was brought into enjoying Opera by the public master classes by Ms. Dornemann. Those are experiences in colective levitation, when you feel one with a group of public, singers, teachers and composers. The allways positive messages that she delivers (doesn't matter how they are expressed)read: "I am correcting you because you are terrific!" The book brings lots of the experience, insight, common sense, kindness and warmth that makes her more than a great teacher: a true magician. If you have been to one of her master classes, you will love the book, and if you read the book you will buy or borrow or steal a ticket for her master classes
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Summary: Kind, realistic view of expected behaviour and preparation.
Review: In this book Joan Dornemann gives us a basic introduction to operatic auditions from preparation, to aria choices, to behaviour at the audition. She includes little tidbits of her vast experience as a coach for interest. Her approach is kind, but realistic. Therefore, you may be empowered and exhilarated in one moment and completely depressed the next. In the end it made me wish that the purchase of the book came with a private coaching session with Ms. Dornemann. I look forward to a more complete record of Joan Dornemann's knowledge of the operatic repertoire, the pitfalls etc. She has only whetted my appetite.
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Summary: excellent primer for opera singers
Review: This book, written by two masters of the opera world, give the student or young professional everything they need to know about making it in the opera world, and that the secret is making tough rules for yourself and aiming for perfection. When I finished, I felt like I had just taken a master class.
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