lloyd wrote:
"It is the fact that the choices are of a much different nature.
Timing is completely different. Word emphasis might be the same as
that which the actor would choose if the text were spoken but often
it is not."
lloyd,
i agree about the timing issue. it is not simply slower than speech,
it is different. in the first act of 'boheme', when rodolfo and mimi fall
in love, the opera captures that sense that these moments are eternal and
exist outside of time (or, at least, that is the hopes of the newly
infatuated). while i think that non musical acting can capture this by
expanding the pauses, i think it is probably easier for music to capture it.
to be sure, yes, they both are generally slower but, that's not the effect.
lloyd also wrote:
"The nature of the demands on the
singer-actor transcends and exceeds those required for the singer or
the actor individually."
i agree the singing-actor has to have other skills besides singing
but, i feel that in the singing, the task is the same for both the singer and
the singing-actor. what is different is the frame of reference. perhaps
this differing frame of reference is enough that they be viewed seperately.
mike
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