Speaking of classical training working for popular-style singing, I caught a little of the "Three Mo Tenors" on the Today Show this morning (and they have a full-length performance running on PBS this month that I haven't yet seen). They showed a video excerpt of the three of them singing "La donna e mobile", and a live performance of them performance a soulful, close-harmony pop number. Each of them had first-rate, completely idiomatic singing. I liked all of their voices and singing, and was especially impressed with the opera voice of the oldest of the three. His voice was closest of the three to the type of voice one wants to hear sing Verdi (the other two have lighter, more lyric voices). Though it's not possible to judge from TV and artificial amplification how the voice would work in the opera house, his voice and singing seemed far superior to at least one youngish tenor with an international career I heard last year at the opera house.
It made me want to see them perform in person, and also made me think a lot about racial discrimination in the opera house, especially in the tenor roles which are typically romantic leads!
Peggy
-- Margaret Harrison, Alexandria, Virginia, USA "Music for a While Shall All Your Cares Beguile" mailto:peggyh@i...
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