TEACHING OPERA: The Role of the Opera Workshop

With scene catalogBy Kathryn Cathcart and Willene Gunn Foreward by Lotfi Mansouri In his foreword to this new volume, Lorti Mansouri states:   "Having been the product of an Opera Workshop (U.C.L.A.) and involved in the creation of young artist programs with opera companies in Europe and North America, I have rarely seen as instructive and practical a guide for developing young artists for a career in opera as Teaching Opera.   The talented and dedicated team of Kathryn Cathcart and Willene Gunn has put the culmination of a more than 20-year collaboration of practical experiences in the classroom into this book.   I had already seen the results of their work while I was General Director of the San Francisco Opera and had the opportunity to work with several graduates of the Opera Program of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.   I realized then that these young singers had received a solid foundation on which to build a career... Teaching Opera should prove invaluable to a great m