> >Don't listen to Madonna - she had a lot of the music transposed DOWN in the >film version because of her very limited vocal range. > >The original Evita was the quintessential belt mezzo, Patti Lupone. That >said, I do not suggest that you attempt to become a full-blown belter! >Other less "belty" singers have done the role quite successfully, and they >cast you with YOUR voice, which I suspect is what, in musical theatre >parlance, would be considered "full legit" (i.e., operettic if not >operatic). <snip> I think if you can achieve this kind of >"voix mixte" you'll have just the right sound for Evita. > >Karen Mercedes
Just to add another element: The last time I saw "Evita" (Townsend Opera Players, Modesto, CA, November 2000), the title role was played by a soprano whom I know from "Man of La Mancha" (she was Aldonza). She has a French-made CD out listing her as a "soprano colorature", and has also played Johanna in "Sweeney Todd." Go figure.
INCIDENTALLY, that production had no *%^# mikes, and I could understand a lot more of the words than I could the first two times I saw "Evita."
Elizabeth Finkler San Jose, California mightymezzo@h... THE S.O.B. MANIFESTO: http://home.earthlink.net/~mightymezzo/SOBManifesto.htm "This would be a better world for children if the parents had to eat the spinach." --Groucho Marx
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