Upgrade Your Skills
To a Master Level
Whether you are new to the industry or
have a professional background as a singer,
Malcolm Arnold can help you enhance your skills
to become a complete singer-actor.
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Malcolm Arnold can teach you the skills required
to become a complete singer-actor!
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Skills that are part of the process:
- • The stage as a comfortable workspace
- • Processing the text of a song (independent of the music)
- • Analysis of character and situation (still text oriented)
- • Interpreting how the music affects the text
- • Who are you addressing?
- • Effect of changing the situation
- • Understanding the motivation for each response
- • Realizing the song’s purpose and personalizing through subtext
- • Understanding the voice’s function as a responsive, expressive instrument
- • Incorporating the visual, physical element to singing
- • Removing and replacing unnecessary or meaningless gestures
- • Working with a partner – duets, ensembles
- • Combining all the skills in order to create unimpeded mirror to your soul
Potential Students (Opera and Musical Theater)
- • Professional singers (opera/musical theater)
- • Participants in Young Artist Programs
- • Voice and theater majors
- • High School Seniors seeking admission as a Music or Theater major at the university level.
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Testimonial
Malcolm Arnold is an experienced actor, singer and teacher who skillfully offers real technique and fundamentals to performing artists at all levels. This is a serious textbook for serious students from a passionate and professional teacher. There is so much here with which to explore and learn and improve your craft.
Jason Alexander, Tony and Emmy award winning actor
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Testimonial
At auditions for my show, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, I often wondered why a particular actor or actress compelled my attention, why the very air in the room became charged as they sang. Now I know the answer: they were utilizing the very techniques that Malcolm Arnold espouses so expertly in The Complete Singer-Actor Manual. Malcolm has thought deeply about the whole process of vocal communication, drawing upon years of experience and perceptive observations. The result is a richly-detailed, highly-readable text about how to give the words we sing “a message and a destination.” He shifts easily from musical theater songs to opera arias, and in several stunning examples, analyzes exactly what is going on, dramatically and musically, measure by measure. The reader learns to think like a composer and lyricist, then learns how to work with their own feelings and perceptions to fashion a performance that has rhyme, reason and emotion. In The Complete Singer-Actor Manual, Malcolm Arnold, with zeal and generosity, shows us how we can transform mere words and notes into something wondrous and magical.
Jimmy Roberts, Broadway Musical Composer
Several reviews demonstrating Mr. Arnold’s commitment to
both the vocal and dramatic demands of the roles he played.
Your Instructor
Several of his roles have demonstrated Mr. Arnold’s commitment to both the vocal and dramatic demands of the roles he played.
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TOSCA
Baron Scarpia
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LA BOHEME
Marcello
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FAUST
Valentin
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AMELIA AL BALLO
Husband
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DON CARLO
Rodrigo