Laurence Helleu wrote:
>Does anywone know of great opera singers who cannot read music ? >Isn't it
Pavarotti's case ? Thanks !
I believe Pavrotti reads music - he just doesn't sight-read very well.
In any event, reading music may not be the most important thing. See soprano
and good sight-reader Renee Fleming's comments on the subject in her
conversation with Broadway and Cabaret singer Barbara Cook, which ran in Opera
News. Here's a link to the article (which I posted here a couple of weeks ago).
(If you've never heard Barbara Cook's rendition of Glitter and Be Gay on the
Candide cast album, give it a try. No other singer I have ever heard has sung
that piece as well as she sang it, and that includes plenty of
internationally-reknowned opera singers.)
(The older I get, the more I agree with her and others on how important it is
for somebody singing opera to take time to work music into one's voice.)
Peggy
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Margaret Harrison, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
"Music for a While Shall All Your Cares Beguile"
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