List,
Here's my dilemma: In our Opera Excerpts programme we're going to do
(inter alia) the last scene of Rigoletto, and at the words "Fu vision!" I'm
told that I'm singing "Fo vision!" . Immediately you may respond - well
then sing it right!. My problem is that if I sing the sound asked for, my
singer's formant disappears, only to reappear with a vengeance on the
vowels following. I personally feel that my 'u' isn't quite an 'o' though
it is probably more 'o' than my auditors are used to, and is something that
I developed for a more consistent sound in German repertoire (I'm largely
self-taught, and my method has been perhaps a little teutonic - but now I'm
being asked to do an awful lot of Italian from a strongly Italian-oriented
director - a good thing, many may say, except it requires a lot of
adjustment on my part).
Is there a more acceptable modification of an 'u' vowel that will still
project and not make the following 'i' and 'o' seem like bullies? Or what?
Solutions anybody? john
John Blyth
Baritono robusto e lirico
Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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