The Martina Arroyo Foundation's Prelude to Performance: Die Fledermaus

Prelude to Performance culminates in performances of selected operas, staged, with costumes and orchestra.

The Prelude to Performance program will focus on the preparation of an entire role to include:

• the background of the role

• the historical perspective of the role

• the psychological motivations of the character

• the use of the body and voice in the
  interpretation of the character

• the use of language to convey the character
  with an emphasis on diction

Prelude to Performance® gives selected young singers an opportunity to prepare and perform the complete interpretation of operatic roles in furtherance of the objectives of the Foundation.

The Prelude to Performance® program includes:

1. Weekly Individual Coaching (more available at your own expense)

2. Opera Workshop (stage movement, character motivation)

3. Foreign Language Study of Selected Operas

4. Role Class (probe character, historical context)

5. Libretto Study — “Speak your Part!”

6. Recitative Study

7. Character Study

8. Elective Master Classes (e.g. stage combat, makeup & costumes, management seminar)

9. Critique session (faculty and professionals)