Dear Lisa and co-vocalisters,
the stories about and from people that have had to sing for years or decades as mezzo or baritone (mostly conservatorium students in the Netherlands), only to find out when it is (almost??) too late, that they in reality are soprano resp. tenor, have always horrified me.
To me your story sounds as you have found your own voice and that your voice teacher is stubbornly trying to push you back in her or his idea of how your voice should sound like. I think most good soprano's or tenors can sing as mezzo's and baritones, (I don't say the reverse is also true!) and of course in the beginning of a voice training it's wise to stay in the middle region. But continuing with this too long is in my opinion just as bad as letting someboy sing in a tessitura that is too high. Singing where the voice is not 'at home' and trying to sound as a lower voice will make passagio problems only bigger and not only them.
I have made partly the same experience as you, but my teacher was just in doubt (#2, in fact) whether I was a tenor or not. At some point I just started to refuse to sing bariton things (and have been hiding some of my 'lower qualities' for some time). Now nobody would contradict the fact that I'm a tenor.
In your case, I would try a few lessons with another teacher, maybe even with a teacher that is a not too high soprano with a good healthy voice production.
(Just my 5 eurocents)
Best greetings,
Dre
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