--- In vocalist-temporary@y..., Greypins@a... wrote: > they are not entirely different species so, there is overlap. there are > some tenors who are tenors without any doubt (schipa, lemeshev, gedda, > pavarotti, etc.) and baritones who will never be anything else (merrill, > macneil, lisitsian, hampson, allen, etc.). then there are those who could > or, did go either way (vinay, domingo, prey, king, svanholm, etc.). > ultimately, it boils down to whether or not you can sing the role and > sound sensible doing so and, the catagories only matter in pieces where the > music is fixed (opera, for example, as opposed to song literature which is > often transposable). unfortunately, there is a culture that says a singer > must identify himself/herself as one thing or another, an arbitrary and > capricious practice. > > mike
I've always been told that voice categorization has less to do with range than with the timbre and/or weight of the voice. I, for instance, though a soprano (lyric or coloratura), have a wide range, including a lower range than most other sopranos I know, but I am definitely no alto or mezzo. My voice is too light to sustain that or sound sensible doing so for a long period of time.
Christy
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