Beschreibung:
<jats:p>Opera singers are generally thought of as indifferent actors. Why? On the whole singers are imaginative, very emotional, and sensitive to the music that they sing. It would be fairer to accuse them of a lack of knowledge of the technical side of stagecraft, a lack of knowledge of the kind of thing, in fact, that is taught at any dramatic academy to aspirants to the straight stage.</jats:p>