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Subject: Re: Transposed Arias
Date sent: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 13:20:07 PST
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>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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