Spring 2027

Acting for Singers

Focuses on acting and stagecraft for opera, covering text work in English and foreign languages and applying skills to arias and scenes.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 David Ronis

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.85 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Develop stagecraft skills, particularly those specific to opera

  • Establish a methodological approach to acting operatic material through attention to texts, individual emotional preparation, personalization, and moment-to-moment work

  • Work fluidly back and forth between foreign-language texts and their English translations (using literal, word-for-word translations as well as vernacular English language paraphrasing) arriving at a sense of “owning the text”

  • Incorporate the fundamentals of Stanislavsky and/or Chekhov acting technique methodologies into rehearsal and performance

  • Cultivate a sense of ensemble within both small and large groups, fostering a true understanding of collaboration

  • Support colleagues’ work and receive their support in return

  • Develop intermediate-level stagecraft skills, particularly those specific to opera

  • Expand the understanding of the symbiotic relationship between acting and singing in operatic performance

  • Integrate other areas of music and voice study (music history, music theory, foreign language diction) into stagework

  • Improve the performer's effectiveness in audition and performance

  • Communicate verbally and in writing concepts concerning acting techniques for classical singers

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

Course map

MUS PERF 144, 205, 505 or concurrent enrollment inMUS PERF 505, or705 or concurrent enrollment inMUS PERF 705

MUSIC 463

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.85 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

DAVID RONIS is recorded teaching in Fall 2020, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2024, Spring 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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LEC 060Classroom Instruction0 / 200

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.85 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Acting and stagecraft for operatic performance.
  • Assimilation of English and foreign-language texts.
  • Relationship between acting and singing in opera.

Skills

  • Develop stagecraft skills specific to opera.
  • Work fluidly with foreign-language texts and English translations.
  • Incorporate Stanislavsky and/or Chekhov acting techniques.
  • Integrate music history, theory, and diction into stagework.

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2025— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Catalog & offerings

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MUSIC 463 · Spring 2027

Acting for Singers

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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