Sunday 16 April 2023

What happened next

Dionysios Kyropoulos - Teaching acting to singers: harnessing historical techniques to empower modern performers
I first met Dionysios Kyropoulos in 2013, whilst he was doing an MPhil in Cambridge, when we met to chat about his ideas on the use of historical stagecraft in modern performances, see my interview Man in a Misson

These ideas had developed considerably when Dionysios and I met up again in 2022 to chat further, see my interview Not an additional ornament, in advance of his staging of Handel's Tamerlano for Cambridge Handel Opera Company [see my review].

Anyone who saw that production of Tamerlano will perhaps note that the costumes and the staging were modern, and Dionysios has developed his interest in the usefulness of teaching historical techniques to modern performers, not just recreating historical productions. 

This has now come to full fruition with Dionysios' doctoral thesis at the University of Oxford. His thesis is available from the Oxford University Research Archive website, the thesis' title says it all:

Teaching acting to singers: harnessing historical techniques to empower modern performers


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