The singers are what's most important !

Toward a historical and critical performance practice of the works of Richard Wagner

Author: Egon Voss

Score

The basis for the performance of a work written for the musical theater is the score. This sounds banal, but in practice, however, it is often the case that performers do not rely on the score. Singers rehearse their parts from keyboard excerpts, and orchestral musicians play from orchestral parts. One would expect all this perform…