Mary-Beth wrote:
>One side bar...........I'm amazed that people continue to annihilate >Seth's results...........I know of no other teacher who has had the results
>he has. And remember, I only pulled out a few names........nearly 40% of his >studio is Opera students. I have ANgela Blasi's resume in my hand right now, >if you all really want me to post it. My point being two-fold; > 1) Who else do you know has had the results that he has had. NOt a >school, but one teacher.
Thin ice here. This is what I, and I suspect others, find off-putting about SLS, to which I am otherwise favourable disposed: this claim that no-one else gets the results Seth Riggs does. Maybe it's true among the non-operatic singers, but it simply isn't true among opera singers.
Past teachers whose success rates leave Riggs in the dust include Porpora, Garcia, Cotogni, Sbriglia, Rosati, the Lampertis, Marchesi, Melocchi, Novicova, Viardot...and I could go on. Details of both quantity and quality available on apllication.
Among teachers still with us or but recently departed, Riggs's success rates don't approach those of Vera Rosza, Freddie Cox, or Ottakar Kraus in Britain, Bandera or Campogalliani in Italy, or Ivogun in Austria. I don't have much experience of the US, but I seem to recall that Armin Boyajian had a high strike rate in the US (Ramey and Plishka certainly), but I'm sure there were others. Perhaps a lister can enlighten us as to the success rate of Richard Miller. These are all from the top of my head, but if you'd like lists of pupils, I can pull them together without much trouble.
None of this denigrates Riggs, whose promotion of good vocal health among non-operatic singers can only be applauded. But it is difficult to sustain Riggs's claim of astonishing success among opera singers, at least from this side of the Atlantic.
Happy Singing,
Regards / vriendelijke groeten
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