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From:  "Molly McLinden" <verdirules@h...>
"Molly McLinden" <verdirules@h...>
Date:  Tue Aug 7, 2001  3:36 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] Aria competition


Thanks to Lloyd and everyone who posted!
Lots of good points were brought up.

I selected that list of arias because each and every one of them was at one
point suggested that it would be good for my voice.

As someone on this list (was it Karen?) said, Marguerite in Faust should be
sung by a fuller soprano (my voice teacher agrees).
My leggiero (-ina) friend sang it last year, and she thinks it would be more
effective if a voice like mine performed it.
This same friend also sang a Susannah scene, and my teacher and others think
Susannah is better left to fuller soprano voices as well.
Just an opinion.
I am aware the "Czardas" is NOT an easy piece, but I believe I can polish it
come October.
I must say that I DID sort of "huh?" when one of my teachers suggested
Tosca's aria for me. This is the last aria I would select...well..that and
the Pique Dame one, as I know Tschaikovsky is not easy for the orchestra to
play, though the aria is not a difficult one for me VOCALLY.
No, my Russian is not perfect....another reason why I think
I am going with :
Porgi Amor (I know it very well already)
Jewel Song
Czardas

Past winners have won with:
(last year)- Che bel il sogno di Doretta and Glitter and be Gay
the year before- Italian Street Song ...and something I forgot..lol
the year before THAT- Ach ich fuhl's, Voices of Spring, and O mio babbino
the same soprano, two years earlier, sang Mein Herr Marquis , Musetta's
Waltz, and Ah jeux vivre.

Sooooo I realize that I am taking a chance here, being a baby dramatic and
not a coloratura. Obviously, the judges here like light soprano
voices...when I am a "baby dramatic".

We'll see what happens!

Thanks all,

Molly





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