Isabelle wrote:
> In fact, if you have fair agility and can develop a > good ability to sing clear coloratura (try taking Il > mio tesoro at double-speed, for example, and keep the > coloratura clean), you will be that most rare and > prized thing, a Rossini tenor. Rossini is done a LOT > and very few men can move the voice in the requisite > way and sustain the high tessitura. You will be MUCH > in demand.
Good point. A really good Rossini tenor is rare.
I think the test for a Rossini singer, though, ought to be whether s/he can sing Rossini runs. I don't mean to be flip, Isabelle: what I'm really saying is that Rossini coloratura is different from Mozart coloratura. Some of our more musicologically-minded or technically-minded colleagues might be able to work out why; I've never really thought much about it. All I know is that even a good Mozart coloratura-singer (of any voice type) isn't necessarily going to kick out the Rossini cleanly!
NGL
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