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DE LA THĖÂTRALITĖ DU CORPS LYRIQUE
CONCERNING THE LYRICAL BODY'S THEATRICALITY

Author(s): Anne-Laetitia Garcia
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: theatricality of the body; opera; Callas; performing body.

Summary/Abstract: Concerning the Lyrical Body's Theatricality. I herewith propose a few reflections on the lyrical interpreter's body theatricality. As an art of exacerbated voices and passions, opera imposes onto the stage a different body – alien to daily life – suited to the character's exhibition, a performing body. Theatricality then adheres closely to a posture, that of frontality.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 49-61
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: French