| To: "VOCALIST" <vocalist> Subject: RE: Opera Date sent: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 18:28:28 -0800 Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>
> Hi everyone! I'm new to this list. I had a question > about opera. I am 18 and female and have taken > private voice training before but briefly, less than a > year. Now I have started up again and am wondering if > it is too late to get into opera.
I didn't start taking lessons until I was 22, and now, several years later, my voice has developed into quite a nice operatic sound (IMO :o). I had a couple of jurors tell me after a year of lessons that no matter how hard I practiced, my voice would never develop enough since it was still so undeveloped at the ripe old age of 23 (okay, "ripe old age" is from me - but a sarcastic tone of voice doesn't come across over e-mail). I'm glad I didn't listen!
My opinion is that it's never too late, and if you really want to do it, and are prepared to work, then go for it! And you're so young - you've got years to develop your voice. Most people's vocal apparatus don't fully mature until they're 30-something - a long way off for you!
Jennifer, who wonders what the world is coming to when teenagers start thinking they're too old for anything
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist (1749-1832)
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