Dear Graham and co vocalisters,
Graham wrote: '[...]I would normally stay out of this, but the above quote shows a misunderstanding 1. about vocal technique and 2. about Mozart. 1. Every voice can modify too much or too little regardless of the weight of the voice. 2. It is only in recent years that Mozart has been cast with only lyric voices[...]'
As for 1: This may be true. that's why I wrote 'I think it is more a matter of a good head/chest mix, than of covering'. But apart from that, as I understand it, the heavier the voice, the lower you'll have to cover: the original poster was talking about covering-problems at E4. For a lyrical tenor and especially for a light lyrical, this should a very easy note.
As for 2: There was a time when people were trained to sing both light and heavy, regardless of the voice. There also was a time when every voice could sing coloratura's very well, but all that's history.
If you are a heldentenor, that can sing Mozart - and I don't mean the Zauberflöte, but the opera's we were talking about, Don Giovanni, and Così fan Tutte - in a beautiful way, a great future lies ahead of you. If so, why not put a mp3 of this on our site? It could be very interesting.
One thing we might agree upon, is that a tenorino is not the right voice to sing Mozart either.
Best greetings,
Dré
----- Original Message ----- From: gsanders@b... To: vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 3:03 PM Subject: Re: [vocalist] Re: vowel quandry/'covering'
on 13/2/01 10:39 pm, Dre de Man at dredeman@y... wrote:
If you are a spinto or heavier, you may have to modify the vowels too strongly for other reasons, and then it is not Mozart anymore either.
Dré
I would normally stay out of this, but the above quote shows a misunderstanding 1. about vocal technique and 2. about Mozart.
1. Every voice can modify too much or too little regardless of the weight of the voice.
2. It is only in recent years that Mozart has been cast with only lyric voices.
Ciao,
Graham
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