But you have to learn to sing like this in order to expand on different ways of singing. Not that I like Ariana Grande, i dont like her. My opinion. There is a wide difference, but there is a path to get from one kind of voice to the next
stefanie marquez Yes and no...Yes Mariah is fhe real deal as a great modern example of someone who has a whistle register (Back in the 70s, it was Minnie Ripperton that first came to mind) an the no...Mariah or these others are different from people with a pure light lyric or coloratura soprono voice. Without the whistle, Minnie being one of the exceptions, a number of their registers are high Alto or Mezzo/Second Soprano. That extra tissue in the vocal chords enables them to obtain those notes without the ability to really sing it out as a real Soprano can. That latter sentence is why fans of classical music singers don't care for the mentioning/comparison of pop music singers on pages featuring pdrformers of this discipline, to put it nicely.
Beautifully sung. Her tone and intonation are just wonderful. And what is with these Ariana and Mariah comments? They don't belong here. The voice and and even the vocal training of a pop singer and an operatic singer are VERY different. Apples and oranges have more in common. Don't compare.You'll look like an idiot to those of us who actually have professional knowledge of music.
Alright, I want to clear up what note she's singing...This note is Ab6, not a B7 or anything in the 7th octave. To put things into perspective, the G#/Ab note that we normally acknowledge as a high note (the high note in the aria "O mio babbino caro") is Ab5 and above the staff. C6 is regarded as "soprano high C". This note Ab6 is the G#/Ab that lies above high C. This note is also one octave higher than the Ab5 in "O mio babbino caro". I have absolute pitch, so I could identify it immediately, but I also verified the note with a pitch pipe and a piano.
DoctorWhoBAMF I don't think it's the highest note she ever sung. It sounds still higher in the finale of the "Carnaval de Venise" ending the Variations. But her voice vas very particular. Her bass started at high medium of usual soprano voices and all the rest was up. The voice was rather thin and clear, no harmonics and rather shrill. Still it is amazing. She didn't have much studies, she was quite a simple woman, her voice was apparently natural for most of it. It sounds very much like it. She was some kind of "monster" and she used to say that the only thing that prevented people from singing the way she did, so high, was fear. It's not my usual cup of tea but I must say I love to listen to her voice and the simplicity she managed it. A phenomenon.
Lara - Lara you are correct. Although Mado Robin interpolates the final note it is still sung in the correct key of the aria which makes it Ab in the altissimo.
I sang yesterday G6, but not with such a strenght and half the duration of it. So, it is quite impressive what she does, but I am just starting to use my head voice since 3 days, and I am 36 years old....lol.
This really frustrates me. Firstly, most women don't use falsetto. Most use a very strong head voice range. Falsetto is not about the vocal range you can use falsetto in chest too ... It's using the false or secondary vocal folds in place of the true folds! Falsetto literally means 'false voice' it isn't an 'exta' added on top of your head! It is a technique. For example, Tom Jones can not sing in falsetto and has never been able to (his words!). Also, this modern day obsession with extremely high notes .... Unless you are a soprano and are trained to access these notes correctly then at some point you WILL do damage. Never before have their been so many singers having surgery on their larynx (Adele,Sam Smith, Jessie J in the last year alone) ... Second rant is this; casting in the wrong vocal fach. Unless you are an operatic singer (trained) you are not any fach! It is not simply about notes you can or can't hit it's about style, weight and timbre of voice too. Too many people limit themselves mentally by this. At the end of the day people need to remember tone and control, phrasing and delivery are all more important than notes you can hit.
I can hit high notes without strain at all. Like I can belt a c6 easily and I like to sing in head voice, but I don't have a really girly voice. Am I more of a mezzo soprano or a true soprano?
+caila carter I always sing high and it's more comfortable for me, I sing high soprano in choir so I think because of my tessitura I'm just a soprano. thanks
This is most definitely in the whistle register. It is nigh impossible to sing in the head register this high without damaging the voice. However, the difference between Mado Robin's whistle register and pop vocalists' whistle registers is that hers is connected to the rest of her voice, and holds remarkable power. For this I applaud her.
I love listening to this singer. Not because of her high register, although that is a wonderful bonus, but because of the lovely grace with which she sings. She was an artist not just some freak. Even her high notes are lovely notes. She could very well have been famous just for her normal register.
Crow, I absolutely agree, this is a miracle, high, natural, clear and on the top of that has a tremendous vibrato with it. Just amazing! Most coloratura voices give a squeak even on the high F in Mozart's Queen of the Night aria. Some comes out clean and somewhat even, but never heard such perfect and high note as at the end of this aria. I understand, to make a very high note, the singer has to mentally aim way higher as the note itself.
Actually 😅 YMA sumac still holds the record for the most powerful vocalist with a crazy huge range! Its humanly impossible, but its real. Her highest note is actually the highest note a woman has ever pitched..
I read an article once stating opera singers sing in full voice even when in the whistle register which is why it sounds more.... supported and full. Hope that makes sense.
Jenine Requillo 1. Mado Robin is a coloratura soprano, so I am not sure what being alto has to do with it. 2. Don't confuse "alto" and "contralto". Altos are many - this is a chorus classification and their range is similar to operatic mezzo soprano. Contraltos are rare. 3. In terms of high notes of operatic mezzo sopranos and contraltos, search for "mezzo soprano and contralto high notes", you may be surprised is how high they can go. 4. Opera singers need to always use full voice and support their singing; otherwise, they'd not be heard in opera where there is no amplification.
it's a good thing you are learning opera by the time you are done you would know that Mado is a light lyric soprano. she is a type of soprano which is recognized. there are people with light voices like her. She is very standard Soprano.
I have a friend whose a coloratura soprano!! :D she can sing a C8!!! she doesn't seem to have a whistle register... but the voice teachers at our university just love her!! haha and she's only a first semester college student studying voice... she's insane!
these phenomenal top notes were neither artificial extensions or freak sounds but rather sustained tones, bright and round and produced with seeming ease.
Harold Rosenthal notes in his Oxford Dictionary of Opera that Robins top register contained what was supposed to have been the highest tone ever emitted by a singer-C above high C
3. When someone is studying bel canto, and she or he do the execises from C4 up to C7 or C8 continiously then u can conect the registers and make it sound as a real voice not as a scream. Im a coloratura dramatic soprano, and i can reach up to E7. I need to study and exercise to master it. The last note it is sound like the mariah careys, as a quality, it is defenatelly whistle register.
Like you said Mado has an amazingly light voice. When you listen to the whistle of Mariah and Mado's high notes you can tell the difference in the quality, fullness and richness of the sound. That is your que. I have tried same notes by whistling and singing them in head voice and there is a difference.
She's a dramatic coloratura. Maria Callas was a dramatic high soprano, Miliza Korjus a lyric coloratura. Miliza sounds like a true nightingale in Alabieff's Die Nachtigall. Listen and you will hear the difference. All excellent singers.
I sang yesterday G6, but not with such a strenght and half the duration of it. So, it is quite impressive what she does, but I am just starting to use my head voice since 3 days, and I am 36 years old....lol.
Ah oui quand même 😳 Mado ROBIN était unique par l'étendue et la puissance de sa voix. Ce fut une immense perte sa disparition à 41 ans, elle avait tant à apporter. De là haut, elle doit régaler les oreilles des âmes qui l'entendent 💫
You can tell if your high notes are whistle tones or actual tones by whether or not you can hold them and then come down from them easily. It's very uncommon to have notes like these that aren't in a whistle register.
Highest note ( 2:30 ) is an Ab6 with a wide, falling-out-of-tune vibrato around G6. Here's a higher one (Bb6, still not in the 7th octave): watch?v=32hdZaQi4-I @2-45
Mado was able to do her amazing high notes on the operatic stage - with an orchestra, in a large hall and with no amplification - so it's fair to assume they were of a different quality to some of the tiny whistle notes some pop singers do into microphones.
the whistle register is are the highest notes a human being can sing or talk with. If you listen to Mariah Carey, you'll hear it. She is known for her ability to reach very high in the whistle register. When you are at your maximum in the whistle register, your vocal chords are vibrating at their fastest pace.
The description numbers octaves incorrectly. The numbers change at C (not A), hence Mado’s high notes are-climbing the scale-G6, G#6 (Bell Song), A6, B-flat6 (Lucia?), B6, then C7, C#7, and D7. If one searches youtube, you can find a recording of her C7. Not sure about the D7.
I would not agree that she does not use any whistle. I would describe this as a mixed function , but predominantly whistle. In pure whistle, it is only the cartilages producing the sound, but all professional sopranos should be able to mix whistle and ordinary head voice which is what Mado Robin does here. Otherwise, we would hear nothing but fortissimo screams above say an ordinary B flat. In classical repertoire, we hardly ever sing in pure functions but rather in a continuum of mixed functions. I would say that most popsingers only use a pure whistle functions, but, for most classical repertoire, that just would not do the trick.
Georgia Brown as of 2005 had the highest note recorded by a human voice and that was a "G10" however in the release of Guinness Book 2007 that claim was removed. She is a ring wraith to endure when trying to sing anything and including that cacophony that I'm sure put's her stocking the back shelves of wherever she has taken up employment. Har har
I love Mado Robin, but Erna Sack also sing in high × high × high notes. I love Bogna Sokorska, Elena Zimenkova, Erna Sack, Galina Olineickenko and Mado Robin.
I can go pretty high as a soprano, but not that high! Damn, that was amazing! That said, this is definitely NOT whistle register. Really high notes feel like they're vibrating out of the top of your face. The sound is almost above you, not inside you. If you feel it tight in your throat you are NOT doing it right! High notes have to come from the diaphragm with a lot of breath support, an open throat and good posture. There's a reason singers sometimes make goofy looking faces to hit those high notes, they're making room for all that resonance. There's a lot of relaxing one muscle group to make room for another going on. And boy, it's FUN to hit high notes! :D
thaliavillagracia - Aren't you getting confused here? I believe that the B above top C (C6) is B6 not B7. Likewise for the D (D6 not D7) and A# (A#6 not A#7). Her highest note then is actually an A#6. Hope this helps.
Wikipedia is not always reliable. In opera the term whistle register is not used. It's called short register, but it's the same function as that they call whistle. With good technique, you can make it sound big and loud. You can also sing it in a breathy manner like Mariah Carey. But it's the same register.
Damn. It. And I thought I could sing high :D I can sing a C#7, but that's it... This lady is my new idol, haha and now I have a new singing goal. Awesome vid ^.^
@zephyr2050: You're absolutely correct, but in key terms, it'd be more correct to say Ab. Still, it's good to see someone can recognize very high notes. Do you have perfect pitch?
Best wishes on your audition then! (or shall I say break a leg?) . So you are pursuing Broadway rather than opera or are trying both? At any rate, hope you get the role.
Can an expert here tell me whether I use head voice or falsetto? I'm a countertenor range B2-F6(so far, it's always getting higher), my upper register is very strong and had a fast vibrato starting at around B4. It's not lower because I'm still in training.
Manta Del Rey well falsetto can't be sustained and can't have vibrato So it is headvoice We have almost the same range btw I'm a high baritone, C#2-C#6 (Headvoice with a fast vibrato starts at Bb4, everything before that is belting/mixing) my voice thins our a little at the C6, but I can still make an entire park echo with it xD And my C#2's are strong aswell.
She could sing up to Contre-contre Ré but never she sang in on stage for the simple reason that no score provides a Contre-contre ré. The highest note she sang regularly on stage is Contre-Si bémol in Lucia di Lammermoor's Mad scene or Carnaval de Venise or Alabiev's Le Rossignol. My grand mother heard her Lucia in Marseille in 1954. People went mad and she had a 20 minutes standing ovation… of course she repeated it…
ok, i read comments that were really mean and antihuman. 1. operatic singers use whislte register and that it is from high C, or C6 up to 2 octaves above high C. That it is whistle register. Whislte register means that from the vocal cords we use the lower section to produce a really high pitched sound. 2. it is very rare an aria to reach higher than E above high C. or C6.
That's awesome! I mean having perfect pitch! These people here are jealous and I can't blame them :) Yes I measured it and it is Ab6 not what is stated in the description, but it was really head voice not whistle!
She is using whistle register. She's a lot better at it than anyone else I've heard. Wikipedia seems misinformed. This recording seems to prove Robin did use whistle technique. You can hear the change in dominant overtones, just not the normal tension and excess breathiness she's good at it so the tone stays free, doesn't mean it's not the same register. Trying to "pull up" the head register to do this is a bad idea so don't confuse singers saying that's what she's doing here; it's not.
