For someone to say that they can "hit" that note is one thing, but to SING it is another. Mado SINGS this Bflat so effortlessly, and so clear, without the pitch warbling.
Actually the technique is not revolutionary at all. She followed the old Italian school teachings (known also as Bel canto), she worked hard and she's incredibly talented. There are people with that range still today that work as hard, but guess what's the difference: they don't follow the teachings of the old Italian school. Human anatomy hasn't changed, it's just that people teach some garbage "brrr" and "ng" and dog panting exercises, that have basically 0 efficacy. They don't even teach the basic 3 things: 1) proper deep natural breathing (not the belly moving abs workout stupidity that is teached nowadays) 2) proper body stance support (relaxing/hovering over your lower back while your chest is open) 3) proper mouth opening vertically using the entire jaw feeling it open under your ears, like in the video when Mado sings the high note (again not the forced smiling and shaping idiocy that's teached these days). You can check these 3 things in videos of Pavarotti, Luigi Alva, Bonaldo Giaotti, Callas etc. You'll see they all have this technique. It's sad that nowadays there are fewer and fewer people taught the proper way. And their talent is usually wasted, since they can't reach their full potential, both in terms of range and voice brilliance. Juan Diego Florez is one more recent singer I can think of, that has a proper technique, and you can hear the difference to his contemporaries! Especially on lighter voices it's much more apparent.
I don't care whether she 'whistles' or not. What I hear is an extremely agile voice with an incredible upper register. What strikes me about her is the extremely rapid vibrato she has/uses - I think it is typical of the period she was singing in. Others with much more knowledge than I are welcome to comment. I always like to learn more.
+Ole Nielson No whistle, it is a legitimate tone at its (so very high) place. If interested, listen to Erna Sach or Yma Sumac, too, only those could go up there (Erna Sach to C, Yma Sumac to #C). You seem to have common sense, some others commenting seem to have no clue of what they are talking about.
You seem to have no clue what you are talking about because the sharp sign goes after the note. So Yma Sumac sang a high C#7 in "Chuncho." I'd say when criticizing others, don't be wrong yourself.
@Lacey Franklin No, she is not whistling, nor is Erna Sack whistling while hitting C7. They reach it with their head voices. Whistle is a rare technique not really used in opera, it comes from black singers in contemporary music and ofc popularized by Mariah Carey. The sound while whistling is very different, thinner, weaker but at the same time more piercing. Whistle can carry a vibrato (not produced in the same way as the vibrato in your full voice, though), Mariah Carey is testimony of this. It really is a beautiful sound if you have the proper skill and the musicality to blend it in the melody.
@Lacey Franklin Natalie is not whistling. You are mistaking flageolet by whistle. Flageolet is simply an opera term given for anything a soprano sings over E6 that has a bright sound. That is not a whistle, whistle is produced in a entirely different way and sounds different, not necesarily worse, it can sound clear btw (not breathy) and it will always sound smaller than head voice but that doesn't mean the sound is small by itself. You say "suck it Mariah" but, even if I'm but no means putting Mariah at the level of an opera singer, Mariah has crazy control of the whistle register and she is incredibly musical with it. Some vocal teachers say whistle is an "air trick" and they are kind of right but it doesn't mean you don't need an immense amount of skill to be able to actualy sing in whistle, since the usual is that you will be pitchy or your voice will entirely disappear. Whistle can give you access to notes you can't even dream of singing. For example I'm a baritone and I can reach G6 in whistle. If I were to try with my head voice, I would barely touch G5. That's how different the technique used is.
Holy mother of Truck!Hearing this through earbuds is so thrilling, I'm trying to imagine the live sound. I bet I would have just frozen in my seat listening to this live.
I agree. The audience should have EXPLODED with appreciation of that performance. We don't hear this every day of our lives. Where is the appreciation?
That's because she is the REAL THING! Not to downgrade people with "The Whistle Register" but the whistle is an extra flap of skin tissue in the larynx that takes a people that aren't real sopranos, as well as a few that actually are/were (acknowledging some of the dearly departed, into a sound somewhat like what we just heard sung in one's natural soprano vocal range. It's (the whiste) is something you are born with and is not a form of falsetto.
sorry but not the whistle register can be used by anybody, it's just difficult because you need to have complete control and relaxation over the chords in order for them to be almost closed while producing sound.. hence the high pitch
@Lacey Franklin You need to listen to more real music (Classical) and then afterwards, listen to some of this pop divas; perhaps then, you will be able to tell the difference. Listen to her volume; none of those whistle singers can sing with as much volume as they do with their regular singing voice. Mde. Robin's voice is just as high if note higher. If you can't, well there are those people... I also find it hard to believe you listen to Classical music and can't understand this.
You don't need go to extreme high notes to break a crystal. You need the right note (i'm not sure, but i think is Eb6), with the right volume and right potence. :)
Operatic style vibrato tends to ossilate up and down around a half step, even close to a whole step if its really being belted. Your ear still perceives it as a Bb though, even if you start it at the peak of the sine wave. I tried to cheat that way when making a soundfont once, poor Pavarotti would have been greatly offended at how out of tune it made him sound, even though on the spectrogram/tuner it looked fine lol
@Josue Oliver Trust me, a B above the soprano top C, sung with operatic quality and volume, is special, maybe even unique. This is something totally different to the tiny whistle sounds we hear people like Mariah doing, and if you can't see that you don't know much about singing. Most people if they can get that high, and only do so in whistle voice and with a microphone. There's a reason why Mado Robin is remembered as having had one of the most extraordinary high voices of all time. And the note had perfectly good vibrato and power, which is what is so incredible. If you have heard better notes at that pitch or higher sung classical style without a microphone please post us the links so we can be suitably amazed.
Mariah's whistles can be powerful too. Plus if you have a natural whistle register like Mariah, it's healthier to hit the note in whistle than to try to extend your head voice to do it.
Go to Georgia Brown and see her 13 octave whistle note,she holds Guinness World records literally!But yes this operatic singer in this video is damn lucky to sing that high!😉
Cesar Joel i don’t think they’re berating Mariah by saying whistle is “tiny” cuz generally, whistle is less powerful than head voice but can go higher. Just saying
Gorgeous control and musicality. The final high note steals the show-- of course-- but her accuracy and articulation in the whole rest of the aria is wonderful as well.
Not so impressive. I hit that same note just recently. Of course it took getting my fingers caught between the end of a conveyor belt and a metal roller to do it.
Mado Robin is the best!!! her 5th and 6th octave sounds majestic magnificent its awe inspiring and mind blowing...listen to her recordings and live performances Mado Robin vocal range
Thanks Mado, I played this and my long lost dog came running home at last! Unbelievable. Well, actually, quite believable, I saw and heard it but truly amazing.
Mickey, It is not fake. Mado Robin was celebrated as the most perfect "soprano coloratura" of the 20th century. Her highest note is mentioned in the Guiness Book of Records.
Well, my perfect pitch tells me she jumped from high C to one octave above, super high C...and effortlessly. I don't know her age here but in my forties, my top sustained note was a b flat above high C. This voice is amazing. No "whistle" tone here. A perfect, full voice super high C. Glorious!
+Anna Baker Nonsense, sorry. Vibrato never ruins your voice, because vibrato is just a product of what you do with your vocal apparatus and just a sign of good or bad vocal technique. If you use your muscles correctly, you get a normal, healthy, even vibrato. If you do it incorrectly, you get a too wide, too fast or absolutely no vibrato (all these three things are not healthy). So what will ruin your voice is wrong muscle tension (overly tense or not tense enough) in wrong places of your body (diaphragm, tongue, jaw etc). Vibrato itself doesn't ruin anything.
+Anna Baker Sometimes choir directors will tell you not to use vibrato to help with blending, but straight tone is actually more likely to hurt your voice than vibrato. Natural, relaxed vibrato is the maximally healthy thing for your voice. I just graduated with a music degree and actually lost my vocal performance emphasis my junior year because I was using too much straight tone. I figured out correct vibrato and earned my vocal performance emphasis back my senior year. The point is that lacking vibrato is considered a huge technique flaw among professionals to the point where they will crush your dreams over it.
+Anna Baker vibrato is a natural effect of open-throated, strain-free singing. Pop singers often use vibrato as a vocal effect, which may lead to bad habits. I often see famous r&b singers using their jaw to create vibrato. Also, being in a choir in the past I can tell you that teachers do tell their students to sing in a straight tone and even I have experienced how this can lead to bad habits. But going as far as to say that being in a choir will ruin your voice or that vibrato, a sign of free and relaxed singing, will ruin your voice isnt exactly true in my opinion.
I love how most are bringing up *Mariah Carey;* some are doing it to applaud her and others are bringing her up to discredit her in some way. Either way it shows how influential she is and the legacy she has left behind in music 👏👏👏
Edit: I believe the head is in use here, due the vibrato, which confers more power, 'ring'... Of course, we can not compare it with whistle (yes, it sounds like screams and the breath is also noticeable sometimes), because what really mattes is how much a note can be loud (in decibel), not the pitch (Hz). But I agree I was unhappy on my previous speech and also agree that use this register is very difficult and singers can "mold" the sound to create various possibilities (staccato, mimic instruments, birds, et al).
While Opera singers are leagues ahead of Mariah, Mariah doesn't scream.. You've obviously never heard her harmonize using her whistle register, mimicking instruments, doing fioratura and staccato runs etc with her whistle register.
Vinicius Soaris You Sound Dumb asf. Mariah is immensely talented and her whistles end up sounding almost identical to the opera counterparts, they are not as sonorous of course but she is impeccable. So excuse Yourself
She skys like nothing I've heard in my 50+ years of collecting records back to 1897. She makes Joseph Schmidt sound like a basso profundo. I've never heard a full voice note that high until now. And, she HOLDS it for how many seconds??? Fascinating!!!
Mariah highest notes are "whistle notes", not sung-completety different way of projection. I think her highest head notes were something around D6, so it is still a long way up to Bb6. There is also no way they could be heard over an orchestra without a microphone. It is said, that Mado sung also a D7 in concert in Vichy, unfortunatelly we don't have a recording.
Lmao! Mariah Carey’s head voice AND falsetto range goes up to A#6 and there’s videos on here to prove it. Mariah is no stranger to a healthy technique, because she was raised by an opera singer. Mariah is unparalleled in resonance in every register when compared to who’s young and famous today.
@@mrbigbigtoe Falsetto for a lady in Classical... Stop while your ahead. Oh, wait. A few people that love classical singing have read what you type. Too late!
@@mrbigbigtoe Wrong, she said that she was not interested in the opera, she did not give much importance to the opera and the head voice, she managed to reach an F # 6 for a few seconds, besides that today she is a mezzo-soprano not a soprano, already That is why his head voice sounds heavy and slow. There is no evidence of an Ab6 in the lead voice, the highest note from her was an F#6.
@@Pachinanonim Mariah is a Soprano not a mezzo-soprano , what are you talking about Mariah has no resonance in the 6th octave , even though she doesn't have resonance in the 6th octave she's still a Soprano
@@majahandlovu8115 No, you did not understand my comment, in her best days she was a soprano, since she could sing her songs live without worries, nowadays she is a mezzo-soprano and she no longer arrives as before, her voice changed due to age and problems with her Voice that she had, indisputably and audibly, she is a mezzo, before she was a soprano, and I mean that her head voice is little worked since she does not sing opera, and is not interested in that, besides that she can go down to an F2 In a chest voice, before it only went up to a B2, she is a mezzo, people will never say that she is a mezzo (now a days).
the big ending aside, she has such a lovely color to her voice! it's so unique, i don't think i've ever heard another voice like that. it has this really simple, sweet charm to it, makes me think of snow white or any one of many golden age actresses' speaking voice
this opera singer mixed the head voice with the whistle register the technique is a different another thing . the sound is a much fuller sound than just the whistle register & must be carried with a orchestra without a microphone.
@Imani Alexander Will some of you stop and think; Whistle Register is called just that because of a reason. Did you hear her last notes go down in volume? No...because she is an extremely high singing soprano with no "Whistle Register". Those with that sound are regular recording artist whether they trained in classical or not.
ceci est une partie d'une émission de télé de l'époque présentée par J Joubert. Il n'empêche que cette voix est magnifique et que son étendue vocale n'a pas été égalée
of course people have silly, both in pop and classical music. Mariah Carey goes a lot higher and Marie-Sol Chevalier did a C7 for 5 seconds in her rendition of Ave Maria.
@Duo Channel : you're comparing the uncomparable : Mariah Carey uses the whistle register, while Mrs Robin sings in chest voice. First, whistle register is UNlawful in lyrical singing, and second the loud volume of Robin's high notes totally disqualifies whistle singing. Robin's loudest notes are exactly her highest notes, which is NEVER true for anyone using whistle singing. Mado Robin is precisely famous for that particular reason : being able to sing this high WITHOUT the whistle register.
That last note was out of the stratosphere It’s like if you don’t hit that note, the world will come to an end. That’s how I look at it. I’m all choked up right now 😢
I adore the works by those with such ability. How one can sing this high is granted to those who know they will use it correctly. And she displays as one of those people.
Absolutely fantastic! I'm just starting college and am seriously thinking about majoring in vocal performance. I would love to to be HALF as great as that! :D
Brava. Nothing this exciting happens on the New York opera stage anymore. Where are the artists who take risks on stage for more applause. Instead big name singers cover or transpose notes down. Was it French spring water that made Mado so great? Check out Mady Mesple, another underappreciated French soprano.
Since listening to this song I have just came to love Mado robin and this song. The high notes at the end, I tried and tried just guess practice doesn't perfect anything. If I had such God given talent Id throw it in to people's faces! Id be singing everywhere just throwing around my extraordinary range.........
Returned for another hearing! Mado Robin was all but unique in her focal abilities. I went to great lengths years back to import her discs, which were expensive European releases.
I've not listened to opera before but this is a really nice voice. Pure. I'm a Mariah fan but I was brought up on her. Not brought up on this. Stunning stuff to listen to.
Yes mariah can hit this note. What you all are not seeming to understand is that this is HEAD VOICE! Mado technically surpasses Mariah because she hits all the notes Mariah has done in HEAD VOICE. Whistle notes are not allowed in opera. So it's safe to say I'm scared of what notes Mado could hit if she ever tried to do whistle notes 0_0. Not hard to believe she could hit a D7 though.
