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This study presents solutions to the specific problems that conductors and singers face when performing accompanied Italian opera recitatives from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As a foundation for the study, the first chapter presents a translation of the technical conducting ideas of a master Russian conductor, Ilya Musin (1904-1999). Musin’s book, The Technique of Conducting, is perhaps the only study ever to consider in great detail the specific techniques best suited for conducting opera recitative. The second chapter surveys the evolution of Italian-style recitatives through the eighteenth century, discussing interpretive options and proposing ways to approach them. This exposition leads to a detailed study of a particular recitative from Le Nozze di Figaro by Mozart, showing how Musin’s techniques can help bring the recitative alive. Two further chapters carry the story of recitative’s evolution through the next century, leading to a similar detailed consideration of an important recitative from Verdi’s Rigoletto. As a whole, the study helps fill a significant gap in the conducting literature by exploring in detail, particularly for inexperienced opera conductors, the challenges, dangers, and opportunities posed by recitatives and by making available in English, and showing the value of, Ilya Musin’s specific conducting techniques.","abstract_html":"For several centuries opera composers have made significant use of recitatives in their works. For conductors and singers, recitatives pose significant challenges, many arising because musical notation for recitatives is necessarily incomplete. Conductors must make important interpretive choices and they require sound conducting techniques to implement their interpretive decisions. 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