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Embodying Voice: Singing Verdi, Singing Wagner articulates the process of developing an operatic voice, explaining how and why the training of such a voice is as complex and sophisticated as it is mysterious. This book illustrates how putting together a voice, embodying a sound, and creating a character are vital to an audiences emotional involvement and enjoyment. Moreover, it addresses an imbalance of power between the opera director and the orchestra conductor ultimately, it is the communicative power of the singers voice that brings life to an opera, a fact well known by Verdi and Wagner. Read more