| From: Tako Oda To: VOCALIST <vocalist> Subject: RE: Baritone Upper Register Hook Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>
Ernie Valenzuela wrote: > Milnes had a magnificently unique voice that produced glorious sounds > in the upper reaches of the baritone stratosphere. Even in 1986 - > when it was evident that he was having difficulties in his middle > register - he could bring the Met house down with the climactic, > interpolated high Ab in IL PROLOGO from I PAGLIACCI. And his > interpolated high Bb from Ezio's monologue from Verdi's ATTILA > was something to experience
I remember a Cb5 -> Bbb -> Ab appogiatora at the close of one of his Rigoletto's, too. There's a rumour he had a C natural at one point, but I've never heard a recording of it. Anyone out there know of one?
Thanks!
Tako Oda Graduate Student in Composition Mills College Music Department http://www.mills.edu/PEOPLE/gr.pages/toda.public.html/music/singer.html
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