| From: Dre de Man Subject: RE: maturation of the voice To: vocalist Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>
Barbara Bonney said a few years ago in an interview, that her voice never got bigger, because she did not want her voice to change. Furthermore she said that it is an open secret that most people work hard to make their voices bigger. There have been more examples of people that kept singing lyrical (Tito Schipa, Alfredo Krauss) and were able to keep the lyrical beauty of their voices up into very high age. On the other hand it is quite easy to ruin your voice in a few years, if you sing roles that are to heavy for you. In general, there is a tendency to sing heavier roles, the older you get, but as far as I know, nobody ever has proven that this has to do with age, rather than with making your torso wider, your muscles stronger and maybe even your vocal cords thicker etc. just by practising. I personally think that the age-related changes are the least important ones, but finally also the most definite ones, because the art of singing post-mortem is not often practised.
Dre de Man, lyrical tenor. __________________________________________________ http://im.yahoo.com
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