Masterclass avec / with Marilyn Horne 

What about some GOOD voice??? Which these students don't have

She's awful.

_ So very well put... and thank you for taking the time...

AMEN, AMEN, AMEN... this applies to the spoken word as well... wundebar! bravo y bravissimo!

Its sad, but many talented young students do net get the teachers they need. Even if everything is working beautifully you still have to be lucky to have a carreer. Only if you love music with all your heart passionately you have a chance. There are many teachers who could once sing very well, but they cannot pass it on to somebody.

She does not have any voice left at all.

@@draganvidic2039 She still did have a beautiful voice at 80. I heard her.

+Natasha Poholka Her timbre and size of voice sounds more like a light coloratura soprano, not a mezzo.

Her basic production seems off, everything else is very good. Like she needs to sing lighter with more support to free her vibrato, which might happen in higher keys.

What I am hearing is an imbalance between her middle and top. Too much weight in the middle, so of course she hasn't learned how to free the top. I've known more than a few singers struggle to figure out if they're really mezzo coloratura or some variety of soprano.. The French composers complicate the issue. a bit.

I am a cellist who gets a huge amount of musical insight from vocal master classes. We string players are always told to "sing", so these classes are really valuable to me.

tenor? lmao she's mezzo soprano

daveyboi198724 its a joke.

@@david18ireland r/wooooosh

@Le Gallinacé

After retiring from the opera stage, Marilyn Horne dedicated her life to educating young aspiring singers. Considered one of the greatest mezzo-sopranos of all time, her contributions to opera are indelible to the craft. Her archive is now a permanent part of the collections of the University of Pittsburgh. The Marilyn Horne Museum and Exhibit Center, located in the heart of her hometown, will serve as the centerpiece of the archive and as a resource for all those interested in her extraordinary life and career.

I also appreciated the comment regarding “a series of sensations.”

Scott Edmonds per questa ragione da anni i giovani cantate così male ... ahahahahahahahah !

+Claudia Cooley Not to mention what merits Horne has to the Lied esp German Lied. Without her a lot of young American singers didn't know about the art of Lied which is highest level of singing at performance together with orchestra (Mahler, R. Strauss, Wesendonck). Thanks to her, we have less concern that there is no offspring.

+Claudia Cooley Unfortunately, most opera fans prefer higher pitch voices. That's why she is not given the status she deserved. But when Horne sang with Sutherland years ago, she was very famous and in demand.

While young people might not have heard of her, 40's and up? I bet they have.

+Vette gaddia not given the status she deserved? Where in the world do you get that from? Sorry, but you are very misinformed.

+B Butler :) we can HOPE most people over 40 know of her. I will add, when Ms Horne and Dame Sutherland were on PBS Great Performances back in '80 or '81, i remembered it felt as if my ears where opened for the first time. Such beauty and gorgeousness coming from those voices. and then of course her appearance with the Muppets was sheer perfection.

No money can pay such a coach!!!

She sounds a little like a spinto soprano and has so much charm.

Elle est si nasale jaime pas

She may well be a soprano, but several of the pants roles that are now considered property of mezzos were written for sopranos (or were written early enough that the distinction wasn't made). Urbain was written for a soprano and later transposed for mezzo or contralto when Alboni sang it (as Ms. Horne says), as was Stéphano and probably Siebel. Some sopranos have sung Cherubino as well.

Senza dimenticare, nel repertorio drammatico, l'altra grandissima "leonessa" Fiorenza Cossotto. La sua Amneris è tuttora ineguagliata.

thank you !

I agree

I know, right!

A very beautimous vice!

At begin of her opera career she was engaged at Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Later she became one of greatest Mahler singer. (see also Wikipedia DE and EN)

She wasn't very critical. I guess it is because I have been a participant in many master classes. It would be a true privilege to sing for her and get feedback good or bad. She truly helped the last singer because the singer was listening and trying to apply her suggestions. Very critical? Hardly.

I kept thinking that....and she kept having the guts all the way through.. and the energy and the exhaustion that can come in moments you must ignore.

A masterclass is not a singing lesson, and I think Marilyn Horne had the balance right I think given the circumstances. You can't pick in everything in half an hour, and in any case there sings, out of the ver set-up of a masterclass, will not always get everything right to start with, not like a performance. These masterclass people come and go once, and then the teacher has to pick up the pieces, and for me I felt Marilyn Horne had the right balance. She'd be very different as a singing teacher.

For me, her voice was the best.

Jeena Lim No Waaaaayyyyyy😳😳😳

Well, they can't, most of them never had singing lessons.

Well that is a mistaken old belief that has been disproven many many times that being fat somehow have you a bigger voice. It doesn’t and scientifically fat has nothing to do with vocal production

@@thesoubretteoftheopera7313 No kidding me. I principle. The bigger you are the bigger voice. By experience any opera singer knows this.

@@yogajedi3337 Scientifically disproven.If that were true Caballe would have had a bigger voice than Birgit and Pavorotti a bigger voice than Corelli.

@@thesoubretteoftheopera7313 If a singer, the same person, is 140 cm and 40 kg. (have you heard a midget sing). Increases to 190 cm and +100 kg I guarantee the voice will become bigger. It's simple physical laws. Bigger lungs, bigger larynx, bigger everything. Any patzer will understand this. The bigger the louder.

@@yogajedi3337 Fat does nothing to contribute to the voice. Bone structure yes but your bone structure. does not change in adulthood. You only gain fat or muscle as an adult. Your organs, unless you have a medical problem, will the organs do not get bigger.

Ju AC what's wrong with being a Mezzo?

Nielsen Makaba , less money and bad dressing rooms😆

she was originally soprano - sang Marie in Wozzeck!

pawdaw Lazy soprano

She's a mezzo-soprano; she was never a contralto (a voice part that is actually exceedingly rare).

It's a way of feeling the subdivision of the tempo.

And she was 28 at the time... Poor girl... Shifting the voice type at that age.... Oof

also she sings flat!

Nils Hendrix the rondo-final from bellinis Sonnambula

I am happy to be called a 'girl' - Americans don't like it I know!! But I'm British and we have a different turn of phrase and it's with affection.

You were great too. Nice to have the oppotunity to tell it personally. You show personality, strenght and determination. If it is so that you are a soubrette, it is very interesting anyway how your voice is going to develop. I wonder what you are feeling about it and the soprano/mezzo issue. "more money, best dressing room...haha" I wish you Good luck, whatever the case. Just in case someone else enjoys to read about a soubrette voice: "A soubrette voice is light with a bright, sweet timbre, a tessitura in the mid-range, and with no extensive coloratura.[4] A soubrette's vocal range extends approximately from middle C (C4) to "high D" (D6).[5] The voice has a lighter vocal weight than other soprano voices with a brighter timbre. Many young singers start out as soubrettes but as they grow older and the voice matures more physically they may be reclassified as another voice type, usually either a light lyric soprano, a lyric coloratura soprano, or a coloratura mezzo-soprano. Rarely does a singer remain a soubrette throughout her entire career.[6] The tessitura of the soubrette tends to lie a bit lower than the lyric soprano and spinto soprano.[7]

Couldn't agree more. She is a tough cookie ... but positive.

You should see what we went through in Eastern Europe with some of the toughest Soviet opera singers xD Painful!

Tough as Horne is, the most demanding teacher I've ever seen is Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. She makes Horne look like a wilting violet. Schwarzkopf let absolutely nothing pass uncorrected, and more often than not, the student was unable to sing the piece all the way through due to ES's constant adjustments and corrections. To be fair, Schwarzkopf made clear to the audience that it was not a performance, but rather hard work, which they were being allowed to witness.