Text and Music

1.0 credits

Offered in the spring semester. Continue to develop acting technique through the application of different approaches to the study of text. Focus on discovering character through given circumstances and how the actor’s lived experience and imagination can inform the pursuit of objectives, surmounting obstacles, and playing through conflict. Learning activities include improvised scenarios, dialogue scenes, songs as monologues, and singing songs in a student’s native language. Required course for undergraduate voice students. Enrollment during spring semester of sophomore year. Prerequisites needed: OP 221 & OP 222