Eva Noblezada is currently playing Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby @bwaygatsby at Paper Mill Playhouse! #hadestown #bwaygatsby #greatgatsbymusical
This makes me so happy!!!! Because it’s so rare for altos to get good parts in a song (coming from a choir/theatre kid) and she’s on BROADWAY!!! 😁❤️❤️❤️
Honestly, more musicals need to be written that can be performed by a wider pool of people. It's ridiculous that so many beautiful shows are created the can't be performed by your average youth or community theatre program simply because the songs are too dang high. Similarly, it's ridiculous how many performers will never get a chance to play a lead role (beyond the stereotypical "old man/woman baritone/alto" roles) simply because they can't sing the highest tenor or soprano notes.
Exactly what I was thinking re mezzo range. Altos can’t pull off Kim’s Miss Saigon numbers or the Broadway Eurydice range. Off Broadway’s Eurydice with the dropped keys would be more manageable for altos.
Love an alto, as well as a bass/baritone, you see so few leading roles for those two vocal types, but especially lower male voices, Sweeney Todd, Javert in Les Mis, Joe in Show Boat, Hades in Hadestown and Lancelot in Camelot are the only real major roles I can think of for basses/bass-baritones in musical theatre, the vast majority of leading roles are for tenors.
she’s such an inspiration, i saw her in the great gatsby and i was IN AWE of her voice. I’m an alto as well and an aspiring broadway actress, and seeing an alto this successful on broadway makes my dream sound much more possible!!
I’m an alto and was my one of my middle school choir teacher’s favorite students. I wouldn’t understand how much it meant to me that my teacher respected my vocal range until I hit high school. The choir teacher then had an obvious favoritism towards sopranos and kept pushing my voice past its limit with “warmups” and songs that were ill suited for my range to the point I nearly damaged my singing voice. So happy to see lead alto representation on broadway.
Thank you!!! I feel like contemporary musical theatre is starting to put ridiculously high notes into songs for characters that don’t need to be singing that high. Like I get it if the character is screaming for the need to belt crazy notes or singing incredibly high, but it feels like lately every female musical theatre song is just belting to high heaven for the sake of being showy. Like there is no need for that, what happened to our gorgeous alto leads with those bottom song that struck you to your core. I want more of those songs (this is coming from a high soprano who cries when she can’t sing the alto songs😂)
A lead as an alto… might be unheard of (especially for my theater and my director is an alto..) I absolutely love this because altos can be such a powerful thing but given the hardest job as harmonies or an unlikely at a role because they can’t hit a note as well as a mezzo or such. I am actually auditioning for hadestown in about a month and planning to go for Eurydice. I really relate to the character but was nervous because of the voice range and going up against people with a better vocal range. But this gave me more confidence and this is so greatly said. Thank you so much ❤❤
As a bass I was thrilled to see this show with Shady and Valley of Ashes, like that is sooo soo much low baritone bass material in a modern broadway show. So happy for all my alto girlies and all my fellow basses with this show!
You can't really apply classical opera words (soprano, mezzo, etc) to modern musical theatre, so I think she's just using "alto" to mean a lower female part. Either way, she's totally right about putting the music and story first!
Yessss,as an alto 2, I always get stuck in ensemble because of how strong my directors preference for sops is (I’m also not very good, I’ll take the L). The muscle feels like it’s tailored for me tbh
I was told I was a high baritone low range tenor. And people here in Tyler, Tx said that tenors are just what the doctor ordered. Probably cause a lot of the other guys that sing are baritone.
Just by the sheer small size and lightness of her speaking voice, there's no way she is a contralto. A mezzo soprano probably at the most, but even that sounds far-fetched for her, tbh. Not being able to hit high notes is not an automatic justification or reason that one is a contralto. Check first the technique. Many are actually sopranos and tenors but do not have high notes simply because they don't have the technique to access their upper range. If she sounds something like Tracy Chapman or Cher, I might consider checking her voice further if it really is that of a contralto.
As a choir kid turned opera singer I’m so confused. I thought alto wasn’t a voice type but a choir section. I thought Eva Noblezada was a mezzo soprano with a really good extended lower range.
Alto isn't a vocal fach, you're right , but in musical theatre, we'll sort of classify ourselves based on range alone because that's what the characters demand fundamentally in terms of voice. But in opera alto is not a thing , contralto is.
Bring altos and baritones. I feel like every lead male part in the last 20 years (excluding revivals) have been tenor, and same with lead female parts and sopranos
She is a soprano….very bright tone and her low notes lack depth and resonance. I am not sure why in this video she is saying she is an alto. Very odd, she has a big range and everything but technically she is a soprano. Her voice is very beautiful especially on high notes.
Yeah, I noticed in Hadestown it seemed like she actually struggled with some of the lower notes. Her range is still incredible, her voice is just naturally high
