| To: vocalist Subject: Re: Transposed Arias Date sent: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 13:20:07 PST Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>
>From: Alex Honzen >Reply-To: VOCALIST <vocalist> >To: vocalist-at-lists.oulu.fi >Subject: Transposed Arias >Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 12:40:20 -0800 (PST) > >I don't understand why people are becoming so insensed >when told that operatic arias are usually expected to >be sung in their original key. If you want to >transpose an aria into your vocal category and do it >for a recital, its your perogative. If you bring the >same aria into an audition, it will not get a good >reaction from a large percentage of the auditors out >there.
And let's not talk about the reaction it's likely to get from any South Phila. opera buffs in the audience. Especially if it's a tenor aria associated with their patron saint, Mario Lanza.
Although.... I can see doing a transposed aria as a novelty encore. In that case, they're bound to love it.
Keep in mind that the tenor may get the girl onstage, but the baritone gets the girl OFFstage! ;-)
Elizabeth Finkler Very, very white singer who has been known to take a crack at "Old Man River" mightymezzo-at-hotmail.com
"A world without music is a world without love." --A.R. Gurney
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