It is a great honor to be able to hear your advice. It is great to have a tool like the internet that allows a kid like me to essentially be given personal lessons by a wise teacher. I am incredibly thankful that you have taken the time to help new singers everywhere.
you all prolly dont give a damn but does any of you know of a way to get back into an instagram account..? I stupidly forgot my account password. I love any assistance you can offer me
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and expert opinion.I have watched several of your uploads and cant wait to view them all. Theres alot of people out there like myself whom value your work and hang off every word you say. From the heart a big thank you.
I auditioned for a competition once singing "Can't Help Falling In Love", and I got in because I was in pitch, but they said I lacked emotion. Later in the competition, when I tried to sing "I Dreamed A Dream" (acoustic), they told me there were parts that weren't in pitch. I still made it to the next round, though, thankfully. For me, I often struggle with pitch because I like to sing a large variety of songs, from I have Nothing by Whitney Houston to Pretty Fly For A White guy by The Offspring. Most of the time, when I do a solo and try to sing it normally, it's not very popular. But, if I sing it dramatically, even if it's not on pitch, people love it. Ever since I got the feedback about lacking emotion, I went on a mission to master emotion. I wouldn't say I'm there yet, but I've made major improvements. Now, emotion is what fuels my songs. I sing the lyrics not the song, if that makes sense. On a different subject. I just discovered your channel. This is the second video of yours I watched. The first one you were talking about how to sing dramatic opera, and I don't think you mentioned mimicking anywhere, but in my comment I mentioned how mimicking was how I started my learning process and why it's important. Then I came to this video, and you pretty much said the same thing. It's nice to hear someone verify my thoughts.
I like the B flat cadenza but try selling it to Muti the "so called " Verdi expert! You would be protested at the first rehearsal. He just did Ernani with a light tenor, a famous bass who is a baritone and a light baritone. Muti's Ernani. Is he being creative? I remember rehearsing Otello with him. I would sing "E il fazzoletto ch'io le diedi pegno primo d'amor" with a slow tempo and soft, dreamy sound trying to express Otello remembering the moment. Muti just laughed and there was no idea of any interpretation. Everything was by the metronome. Each heart has his own metronome!
sorry for the late reply:). I agree with you. Each heart has it's own metronome, well said, bravo. It's true that Verdi himself did not like liberties from singers, but historically we can understand that. Belcanto art was very free and creative but it declined because those liberties made Opera as a costume concert show instead of Drama in music. Nevertheless, taking all the liberties from singers during Toscanini times, made opera conductors main stage and they liked it so much that vocal interpretation was not allowed anymore. With that opera became conductors and stage directors field not singers anymore. Great opera is always balance between individuality of a Conductor and singer. If that balance is disrupted there is no great art anymore. Franco Tenelli
***** Kaufmann is a very talanted man and has beautiful voice. Ther is only one thing I protest is miked singers in opera. Kaufmann has very lyric bari-tenor(small for opera standarts voice) without technology we would no be able to hear him in opera.
***** I have not heard Kaufmann live so I can only tell you what colleagues say. His voice is small is what I have been told. Personally, I think he is a very intelligent artist in the Vickers sense. But his musicality and his voice are more in the German style and Vickers' voice was huge. By Italian standards, his voice is ugly and indietro. Beautiful = Gigli, di Stefano, Caruso, Pavarotti, Bjorling etc. That said, he is a fine singer.
I remember Muti preparing me at his home for Canio in Pagliacci. I was debuting as a tenor alternating with Pavarotti. Muti would take Pavarotti's recording of Pagliacci and throw it across the room saying,"Don't listen to this merda. You remind me of Merli ..listen to him!" Then he promptly made the recording with... Pavarotti. Musical standards, musicologists are hypocritical. Muti's Otello.Please. Opera without good singers is a flop. Muti was booed every night at La Scala.
It is a great honor to be able to hear your advice. It is great to have a tool like the internet that allows a kid like me to essentially be given personal lessons by a wise teacher. I am incredibly thankful that you have taken the time to help new singers everywhere.
you all prolly dont give a damn but does any of you know of a way to get back into an instagram account..?
I stupidly forgot my account password. I love any assistance you can offer me
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Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and expert opinion.I have watched several of your uploads and cant wait to view them all. Theres alot of people out there like myself whom value your work and hang off every word you say. From the heart a big thank you.
I auditioned for a competition once singing "Can't Help Falling In Love", and I got in because I was in pitch, but they said I lacked emotion. Later in the competition, when I tried to sing "I Dreamed A Dream" (acoustic), they told me there were parts that weren't in pitch. I still made it to the next round, though, thankfully. For me, I often struggle with pitch because I like to sing a large variety of songs, from I have Nothing by Whitney Houston to Pretty Fly For A White guy by The Offspring.
Most of the time, when I do a solo and try to sing it normally, it's not very popular. But, if I sing it dramatically, even if it's not on pitch, people love it. Ever since I got the feedback about lacking emotion, I went on a mission to master emotion. I wouldn't say I'm there yet, but I've made major improvements. Now, emotion is what fuels my songs. I sing the lyrics not the song, if that makes sense.
On a different subject. I just discovered your channel. This is the second video of yours I watched. The first one you were talking about how to sing dramatic opera, and I don't think you mentioned mimicking anywhere, but in my comment I mentioned how mimicking was how I started my learning process and why it's important. Then I came to this video, and you pretty much said the same thing. It's nice to hear someone verify my thoughts.
I like the B flat cadenza but try selling it to Muti the "so called " Verdi expert! You would be protested at the first rehearsal. He just did Ernani with a light tenor, a famous bass who is a baritone and a light baritone. Muti's Ernani. Is he being creative? I remember rehearsing Otello with him. I would sing "E il fazzoletto ch'io le diedi pegno primo d'amor" with a slow tempo and soft, dreamy sound trying to express Otello remembering the moment. Muti just laughed and there was no idea of any interpretation. Everything was by the metronome. Each heart has his own metronome!
sorry for the late reply:). I agree with you. Each heart has it's own metronome, well said, bravo. It's true that Verdi himself did not like liberties from singers, but historically we can understand that. Belcanto art was very free and creative but it declined because those liberties made Opera as a costume concert show instead of Drama in music. Nevertheless, taking all the liberties from singers during Toscanini times, made opera conductors main stage and they liked it so much that vocal interpretation was not allowed anymore. With that opera became conductors and stage directors field not singers anymore. Great opera is always balance between individuality of a Conductor and singer. If that balance is disrupted there is no great art anymore.
Franco Tenelli
***** Kaufmann is a very talanted man and has beautiful voice. Ther is only one thing I protest is miked singers in opera. Kaufmann has very lyric bari-tenor(small for opera standarts voice) without technology we would no be able to hear him in opera.
***** I have not heard Kaufmann live so I can only tell you what colleagues say. His voice is small is what I have been told. Personally, I think he is a very intelligent artist in the Vickers sense. But his musicality and his voice are more in the German style and Vickers' voice was huge. By Italian standards, his voice is ugly and indietro. Beautiful = Gigli, di Stefano, Caruso, Pavarotti, Bjorling etc. That said, he is a fine singer.
I remember Muti preparing me at his home for Canio in Pagliacci. I was debuting as a tenor alternating with Pavarotti. Muti would take Pavarotti's recording of Pagliacci and throw it across the room saying,"Don't listen to this merda. You remind me of Merli ..listen to him!" Then he promptly made the recording with... Pavarotti. Musical standards, musicologists are hypocritical. Muti's Otello.Please. Opera without good singers is a flop. Muti was booed every night at La Scala.