She was my singing teacher for 5 years in the Netherlands .... to hear her voice in the same room was like hearing 12 angels all at the same time !!!!! Mind blowing !!!!!
Yes, the diversity is great. I've learned a lot. I also very much appreciate Fil's positive attitude to any good music, what ever genre it is. And then he tops it all with reading and giving hearts to a lot of comments, if not all. So generous! What an excellent musician and teacher he is!
Thanks for doing this video, Fil. I was an opera singer when I was younger, so you are making me smile. Opera singers learn to focus their sound way way out in front of their face. They have to project the sound through the orchestral sound-wall (that comes straight up from the pit in front of the stage before it hits the deflectors directly above them at the ceiling). This is true even when the notes are pianissimo. That penetration is often referred to as "ping." To help my focus, I used to imagine blowing the toupee off the head of the guy in the last row of the balcony. Fun times. Pop singers learn to focus their sound a couple of inches in front of their faces because that is where the microphone is. You notice very quickly when a pop singer can't focus past their teeth or let the sound get hung up in their mask. More folks should listen to opera. Even recordings provide a musical experience that is very different than pop or jazz. We can't let this stuff die. Cheers.
She didn’t hit the big time until she was in her mid 30s and recorded this, her breakthrough role in the studio at the age of 39. She was the antithesis of too much too soon. Her voice was extremely rich and ripe and remained that way because she did not overuse it when she was younger. She is one of my favorite operatic sopranos of all time and could sing high F like nobody’s business! She was rare in that she could pretty much sing anything from any genre, dramatic, dramatic bel canto, lyric, lyric bel canto and verismo. She suffered from heart problems and had to retire from full performances. However, she remained active giving concerts, which were nothing short of jaw-dropping and spectacular. They were later on in life and the condition of her voice was nothing short of amazing. She would just stand there and sing and often the maestro and orchestra would have looks of astonishment on their faces while the audience screamed in delirium. She was that great and you can find the videos of her giving these concerts and bringing down the house on RU-vid. She was an incredible singer and a great lady.
@ John Reed. Her voice is quite good but those glottal stops are annoying and she couldn't act her way out of a paper bag. Altogether she's not all that impressive.
@@jayestahnke9917 Actually, it is you who isn’t impressive. Many a musicologist, or self-proclaimed know-it-all, has defined her unique style of singing, handling staccato, etc., as a defect in her technique. Her technique was flawless, and this was nothing more, the glottal stops, than a unique stamp or style exclusive to her. Yes, perhaps even a bit peculiar to some, but it certainly never bothered me. And when it came to acting, I agree, she was no thespian. However, to say that she isn’t impressive shows a pronounced ignorance on the behalf of anyone who would say that, and I mean profound. I have heard them all, have been to over 50 operas more than 100 times. Again, there isn’t a big name soprano to whom I have not listened, or heard live. When it comes to singing, there are very few who can hold a candle to this one. It’s a shame that you don’t realize that, bless your heart.
@John Reed. I see you're the arrogant type who needs to belittle anyone who disagrees with you and brag about your allegedly superior knowledge. Musical taste is an individual thing. People aren't required to fall all over the performers you like. One more thing. My sister is a professional opera singer so I know what I'm talking about just as well as you do.
I am a classical musician (conductor) who has specialized in working with classical singers and came upon your video quite by accident. I listened to this entire segment of your show and have to say that I am quite impressed by you. You speak very intelligently about what you are hearing and observing. There are so many people posting things on Facebook which are nothing but rubbish, people faking their way talking about music, and not really having any clue and making things up that are completely false. You, on the other hand, are intelligent and educated, and most of what you say is accurate and correct. It was very refreshing to finally come upon someone in your field of music who is smart and can talk about music (even when it's not the genre in which he is specialized) in an intelligent and accurate way that is based on fact. So bravo!
Well that was fantastic! It’s amazing that she has such control and uses it so well. Thank you for stepping into a different world and celebrating the talent. Thanks Fil.
OMG ! You’re in my wheelhouse. Working at LA Opera for 17 years, I’ve heard the “ Queen of the Night” so many times !!! All about that F sharp I’ve been told. She sounded fantastic. That’s a hard aria. I’ve been in a dressing room when the divas practice the aria, and there’s no mics and it’s in German!! You made my day and cheered me up ❤❤ Love love loved this!! Thank you Fil !!🤘🏿🤘🏿
Your average operatic soprano won't even attempt the "Queen of the Night" aria. It is performed by specialists. This woman's voice is a wonderful example of that unique talent.
It has little to do with being "your average operatic soprano". If you are a dramatic coloratura soprano, then this is the repertoire suited to you, and one of the roles you work on to try to perfect. The other aria "Oh zittre nicht" is generally considered more difficult, even though it doesn't have all the flashy high F's that this one does.
The average coloratura soprano has to have this in their repertoire. This is a bread and butter role since The Magic Flute is performed so often at opera companies. Search RU-vid for this aria. You’ll find countless sopranos singing it.
@@biancatellington85 Queen of the Night is a bread and butter role IF you can sing it without difficulty. But if you can‘t sing it seamlessly (ie.: reaching all the high F‘s and getting through all the coloratura easily and in tune, and up to speed), then you don‘t offer it. To crash and burn with Königin in even a small or medium sized opera house in Germany means you don‘t need to bother offering it again. Diana Damrau, one of the best coloraturas currently singing, stopped singing it quite a long time ago, as it was too stressful for her - and she did a great job on both the arias. That you can see on RU-vid! Also with age, the voice generally changes, and she has moved on to slightly heavier roles. In the end, there are many other roles a coloratura soprano can offer, without having to push the voice to a role they can‘t quite manage.
Oh my word!!!!! To possess an instrument as beautiful and sonically magical and yet also have total command over it is simply unfair. I love coloratura singing, it's the operatic equivalent of shredding I reckon
I feel like there were points where the pitch monitoring software couldn't tell it was even a human voice rather than an instrument. 😂 She's so incredible. Thanks for the analysis, I've been wanting to see what you'd have to say about an opera singer for a while!
The stillness that she achieves is utterly amazing. I've seen quite a few versions of this performed by different singers and you can see how hard they are working. But it looks like she just opens her mouth and the notes just come out. It's amazing and totally congruent with the character she is playing.
One of the best voices I've ever heard. It's especially meaningful seeing a rock guitarist see the beauty in ALL great art. She can't be human. It's not possible otherwise.
Hi! Beautiful video 😊 opera singer here! I can explain why Christina's voice was, as you aptly observed, homogeneously full and had volume consistency. The key phrase you yourself used "personality and colour of chest voice" in her head voice :) this is the whole crux of it. Back then, opera singers were trained to fully develop their registers before even beginning actual vocal training and singing. This means, the muscles controlling "chest voice" and "head voice" were isolated and developped separately (much like any other muscle group when you go to the gym, haha) and equally. When both sets of muscles were fully and equally developped, this beautiful result we can hear in this video was achieved. A head voice you see, is nothing but the extension of chest voice, that's why you hear so much "chest" in her head voice. But that's not only in regards to volume. The clarity is also maximised, notice the crystal-clear, open vowels. All great singers of that school and era had this kind of sound. Callas, Ponselle, Muzio, Petrella, Tetrazzini.
Literally dropped what I was doing at work to watch this. Made my day to watch you appreciating some opera! This is such a great aria. The Magic Flute is one of my favorite operas!
So fascinating, Fil. My daughter had a long-term boyfriend who was a tenor with the Met in NYC. He often sang for us in our living room. It blew off our 20ft ceilings! He loved the school song from the University of Illinois, and would put all his power behind that, as well, sounded as loud as 60,000 people cheering at a football game. I’m a Beatles fan, come to love opera in my old age!
Although I've not experienced it, I was told by someone who works at the Seattle Opera that there is physical force to opera singing. If you are standing a few feet away, you will feel buffeted by the singer's voice.
You seem blown away by Cristina Deutecom vocal range and pitches. great job analyzing an opera performance. My mom had a box set vinal records of Madama Butterfly featuring Leontyne Price, her vocal range and pitches blew me away. thanks for covering all genres of music Fil. 😊👍
The best part…no auto tune lines! Yes, the resonance is part of classical training. She handles the octave movements so gloriously perfect! Opera houses are created for that type of sound to be filled. Thank you for your analysis. Bravo Fil!
Cristina and my mom were classmates...My mom always told me that she was a lovely girl ... Cristina and mom were from the great generation that built the country after WOII.. They are both gone but not forgotten.
for all you who loves her voice, there is a second song of hers in this opera and you find it on RU-vid and is called: Cristina Deutekom O zittre nicht. be amazed again
Wow!!! I actually forget that I'm hearing a musical voice and not another type of instrument!!! She's that good!!! And Fil's analysis, as always, leaves no stone unturned! GLORIOUS!!!
Wow, Fil, Christina Deutekom is a name I haven't heard in years. She was a big name in classical/opera world. Sadly she was/is barely known in the Netherlands. She used to sing this aria as a warming up for her voice. Let that sink in!!! As always great analysis, Fil 🤘
I am not into Opera, but I will say that Cristina did have a beautiful voice, which she had great control over. I appreciate the fact that you are not biased and bring out the best in everything you analyze.
Cristina Deutecom was a highly celebrated singer who appeared opposite such great tenors as Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, and Jose Carreras, Franco Corelli, and Richard Tucker to name a few. (Incidentally, in this scene, she's playing a villainess, the Queen of the Night, who has just handed her daughter a dagger with which to kill a high priest, else she threatens to disown her. So, yeah, some high drama, all the while singing what is considered one of the most challenging arias in all of opera.) Another soprano known for singing this aria, but with decidedly different results was American socialite and heiress Florence Foster Jenkins (1868-1944). When you watch the following video, I wouldn't be surprised if you concluded that her story is more apropos to be titled "WHAT is this?" She's been described as "the world's worst opera singer...(who liberated herself) from the shackles of musical notation", yet she was admired by the likes of Enrico Caruso, Sir Thomas Beecham, Cole Porter, and other notables of her era. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Foster_Jenkins For direct contrast with Deutecom, Fil, I'm using the Queen of the Night aria we just heard. Actually, I'm supplying two links, which you may listen in wither order. The first is from _Florence Foster Jenkins,_ a 2016 British biopic staring Meryl Streep in the title role, for which she earned an Oscar nomination, Hugh Grant as her manager, and Simon Helberg as Cosmé McMoon, her accompanist. (Helberg, previously known for his role as one of the nerdy friends on TV's sitcom _The Big Bang Theory,_ said he had no experience as a classical accompanist before making the movie, only in jazz, so he had to learn the right chops.) What you'll see in the video is a completely live performance by Streep and Helberg done in one take--so, you can have at with your pitch monitoring. The audience are all extras who were not told what to expect, and given minimal direction (I'm assuming they were told to keep the chuckles down as much as possible, then briskly cheer after the horrible performance, as that's likely what happened in real life.) Her recitals were so popular that one at Carnegie Hall was not only sold out, but had 2000 who had to be turned away due to it being an overflow crowd. I haven't seen the movie, but only this clip, but based on my prior familiarity with Jenkins I can say that Streep's impersonation of the awful singing is spot on. She has some singing ability, but going into this scene she said she had a vocal coach help her practice the aria sung properly, and she said she was able to get it to where she rated a C+ to B-, but then she really had to work to get it down to where she could approximate Jenkin's level of sheer ineptitude. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-giI2uxwFRJg.html The second is a remastered 1940 recording of Jenkins singing the aria in all her discordant glory: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uwthfxxbKho.html (This is even worse than Streep's recreation, as there are places where at times her accompanist gets totally lost trying to follow her.) Enjoy!
It's nice that they have the music running along the bottom of the screen so we can sing along! (Really, just kidding, but some of us probably could!) Wonderfully interesting analysis of a stunning performance! Well done, Fil!
I don't read music but I've pretended to try and follow along when I've heard this on the radio. (Ha!) I obviously can't sing like this. But it's a good vocal exercise to try and see if I can at least get the breathing deep enough and in the right spots. That's why it was so great to SEE a performance, not just hear it. Watching the way she held her mouth and even body was a study in technique. It made me happy that I could at least somewhat understand what she was doing and why.
She looks like she's giving that girl a good talking to, although I don't understand the language lol! This singer truly uses her voice as an instrument.
She's singing to her daughter and telling her she must murder a man or no longer be her daughter. In opera you can plot murder and still sound beautiful doing it.
Luckily, the singers who sing leading roles (the Queen, Pamina, Tamino etc.) aren‘t usually required to do it night after night or nights in a row. Here in Germany, they will usually get a night off in between a vocally demanding role - not like the singers who sing in the musicals: They are required to do 8 shows a week often (Mondays free, 2 shows Saturdays, 2 shows Sundays) but they have microphones and it‘s a different kind of singing for sure. But I would say: absolutely the training and energy and NERVES Deutekom needed for this - especially live is astounding.
Beethoven‘s 9th! So thrilling to listen to - but not super comfortable to sing (at least not the soprano chorus - and also not the Fidelio soprano chorus!) Great music, but not vocally very friendly, I‘d say, not like Mozart or Verdi who really knew how to write for singers (helpful if you are married to one I guess!)
Reminded me of 8th grade music class, teacher spent introduced us to opera. The whole class hated it, but I liked some of it. Couldn't understand it but at the same time I would catch myself humming it later in the day, not the singing but the tune.
Awesome! I have a cousin who is a retired professional soprano opera singer and can appreciate what you're saying, Fil. Any soprano who can perform the Magic Flute solo has my utmost respect. Always jawdropping. (BTW, I agree that the tempo was a bit too fast). Whenever I hear this piece, I can't help but think of the movie "Amadeus" -- a must watch for Mozart and music fans.
My not so secret pleasure is to take in an opera every once in a while. I've had several friends that were opera singers and they are great down to earth people. I went to an opera once, and my date was impressed because we had seats in front of the stage, even though it was one of the worst venues I've ever heard an opera performed. But the singers were close enough that we could have actually touched them. And my friend sang an aria, looked at us and winked. She was impressed.
This was great, Fil! The only opera I have ever watched/listened to was Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé, so this was fascinating. I loved your explanations and admiration of the beauty of Cristina Deutekom's singing. Thank you for bringing me along.
I can run this quite successfully in my head, but as a low alto, got no hope of ever singing it. ( I am part of the humble chorus in opera and light opera productions) This piece is a challenge even for many High sops. A magnificent performance. I have stood next to some very good voices on stage and yeah it does blow you away. Ps we never use Microphones>
Phil, please make a video on all the overdubs Queen does on their live recordings. They have been ruining Freddie's live voice since the very beginning. It's a big shame! Lots of people haven't heard his completely real voice since it's being overdubbed all the time. There are already video's on RU-vid showing it in detail but maybe you could talk about artist integrity and why it's so important.
DAMN! THAT WOMAN IS FAN-TASTIC!!! Sad she's not with us any longer. WOW! WEE! LORD ALMIGHTY. SHE COULD SHATTER THE GLASS ON THE WINDOWS!!! My ex and I saw an Italian opera singer when we went to Paris for our honeymoon. He sang in a chapel and OH, HE KNEW HE WAS GREAT. He had such a smug look on his face. And he was SO GOOD!! I've NEVER SEEN OR HEARD ANYTHING LIKE HIS SINGING BEFORE AND HE BLEW MY SOCKS OFF!!! I never knew his name, but he was something else! ❤❤❤🌸👍🌹!
OK FIL. Ya gotta go see the Magic Flute. It's such a fun, crazy fantastical Opera. The Queen of the Night is a "bad" character. Mozart caught heat with this one. It had "Too Many Notes..." Empreor Joseph. 0
Thank you for this, Fil, it is more my kind of stuff. The company I worked for once upon a time sponsored Lesley Garrett for an event. She was giving a talk and my table was right at the front, within a few feet of the great lady. When she had finished the talk she that she couldn't leave without giving us a tune. Although I have been to many operatic performances, this almost literally knocked me off my chair. The sheer volume was astonishing.
Hmmm. There was one piece in there that grated a bit stylistically for me (am more used to more modern versions such as by Diana Damrau). Opera is always fascinating though! My voice teacher is a dramatic opera soprano. The power up close is astounding!
Love this!! Opera representation makes me so happy! Just a correction, when an opera singer sings higher, they actually tilt the larynx and stretch the cords, the cords DO NOT EVER become shorter as they go higher.
Ain't Opera Great??😁✊ Yes! Opera Singers ARE Actors - They ACT The Emotion Of The Story & Each Part & Bring Them To Life Vocally! Colouratura Sopranos Are Such Truly Gifted ARTISTS - They Are Not Only Amazing To Listen To But This Is Singing From The DIAPHRAM & Colouring Thru The CONTROL & Responsiveness Of The Vocal Cords &, As You Point Out - SO CLEANLY & So Dead On The Notes, AND With Consistent Power!....I Pitty Those Who Cannot APPRECIATE The SKILL & CONTROL To Sing This Way .... As Close To Perfection As A Human Can Get! And - After All, How Can You NOT Love SINGING MOZART??🤯 One Of The Reasons I Love Pat Benatars' Voice So Much - Even Though She Doesn't Choose To Sing Opera - Is Because She Is A CLASSICALLY Trained Singer Like Her Mother, Who Was An Opera Singer! Patty Is AMAZING - I Love Her BADASS Hard Classic Rock (She DID, After All, Aspire To BE Jimmy Paige...😉) & Her BLUES Are Out Of This World! Pat Can Sing It ALL! And In Honour Of The Induction Of Pat AND Her Husband, Co-Writer & Producer & Lead Guitarist🎸Spider - Neil Gerardo - Into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame In Just A Few Days - Will You Do One Or Two Analysis Videos Of QUEEN BENATAR?? Cheers From Colorado, USA!! Thanks, Fil! Love Your Channel!🤗🎸✊
This is off the scale wonderful. Beautiful control of a wonderful voice. I love classical and Opera. I love all music, as there’s good in all, but I always come back, to this time and again. Marvellous video Fil. Totally nailed it.
I love your vocal analysis videos Fil but WOW! This one was really special. I've always loved and enjoyed all styles of music except Opera and it's a style I've never been able to fully appreciate until now. Maybe I'll check out some Opera in future. Thanks for sharing your musical knowledge with everyone.
I wish I could give you more than a big thumbs up because this has been your most important and useful voice analyses. As they say in one of my most favourite movie quotes, "You have chosen wisely" in selecting The Magic Flute for your first analysis of classically trained vocal technique. As it just so happens, The Magic Flute is the first piece of music that was specifically designed to be pop music. Of course, "pop music" in those days meant, using the musical tools then available ie. orchestras and trained voices. But it does have some of the greatest, catchiest pop songs ever written. It came out three or so months before Mozart died; he had SO MUCH to offer. After him there was no more pop music until the Italians got underway with Verdi and then Puccini, and then in the 1920s, the Gershwin brothers who really cemented the concept with Swannee (GG was 19 at the time) and Stairway to Paradise (incredible chords, so closely modelled by the Beatles), and tied it to the emerging recorded music business. (The great German Lieder movement of the early 1800s can't be thought of as pop music but was more like an extension of folk music into trained voices). As for this performance, you may have unknowingly picked up on an unfortunate fact about classical music production: some conductors wanting to sound "special" while not really being special, actually insist on their music being tuned just a few cents above standard tuning. This is especially difficult for wind instruments, which are tuned by construction - you are either out of pitch with the rest of the orchestra or have to use different instruments! BUT another way they do this is by playing at standard pitch and speeding up the whole recording. You can see that she is a little sharp everywhere so yes you are right in supposing that the recording has been fiddled with. She would definitely not be sharp in real life. Another thing, a classically trained voice easily has vibrato ranging two tones, one up and one down from the pitch. Incidentally, I was listening to I Should Have Known Better the other day and John Lennon jumps his voice ten notes in the scale (something like 6 tones, I haven't counted it), so these incredible jumps in The Queen Of The Night arias (there are two in the opera) definitely find a home in the greatest of pop singers. One last thing - I could go on and on - once I enjoyed a performance of The Magic Flute in the front row of the Sydney Opera House. We were at the side and at one stage Pappagino came right next to us and sang in a quiet voice. I had no doubt that his voice would have carried right across the whole auditorium. There is one thing to sing loudly and another to sing with projection. Projection IS NOT the same as loud volume. In the piece you showcased she has to sing both very loudly and with projection. Projection is always required in opera even in the piano parts (quietly) because you are always singing behind an orchestra, which stands between you and the audience. You are always having to deal with 20 or so violins and violas and everything else, and NO AMPLIFICATION.
GREAT , my favorite singer, and what an opera-singer ! Thanks, she never got her credits because she was Dutch and quete voloptuous ! Loove to see your site !
I first found out about Cristina Deutekom in a youtube video comparison of who sang The Queen of the Night the Best, with a series of short clips of various opera performers, some familiar and some not. I'd never heard of Cristina Deutekom before but NOW I have the highest regard for her and her voice by which all others pale in comparison!
Great review Fil. Incredible that Mozart composed this at the end of the 18th Century clearly expecting contemporary sopranos to be able to tackle it. I wonder how those renditions would compare with the total mastery (mistressery?!) we hear here.
That's the song the woman was singing in thr isle next to my husband during a performance of Wizards of Winter performance. My husband was never into opera but he was so impressed with her voice and to hear her right next to him. Whenever he hears this songs he talks about the lady singing next to him. I applaud this performance. Very beautiful. 👍🙂👍
13:26 Deutekom's execution of the A-F-A-C F-C-D-B♭ C-F-A-C F-C-D-B♭ passage is mind blowing. While other sopranos slow down the tempo or speed through it, Deutekom keeps it constant in precise time. One famous soprano actually transposed the entire aria a half step lower.
Deutekom was great. Amazing high notes. Never received the acclaim of the most famous dramatic coloratura sopranos like Joan Sutherland, but was a great talent. Her recording of the great aria, Oh Quante Volte from Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi, is magical and she was great in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.
Just a little bit of vocal gymnastics Fil that is all. I never seen you so flabbergasted. I don't care for Opera myself but I definitely can appreciate. The choir that I am in now has taught me something about vowels and singing. I have learned when consonants especially hard ones are in a word it can cause you to go flat so if the note gets to a certain height on the scale we only sing the vowel of the word. Another great analysis Fill kudos.
This is my all time favourite opera piece and Christina is brilliant and like to see this clip regularly. Then I saw your analysis in the listings which I enjoy. I watched your analysis of Connie Francis who I’m also a fan of. Nobody will ever be able to beat Christina’s performance.
Thanks again for this, Fil. I went to the performance video and watched / listened a second time. That rarely happens. As I said, I'm not an opera fan. But this was indeed incredible. Cheers to the other singer/actress as well. That's got to blow your eardrums out, being at such close range. I was wondering if she'd survive, LOL!
With different genres of music, there is so much you can learn from. Even with singers who do other styles, they can still be an influence. Thanks for sharing this analysis video. Cheers, Fil! ✌️
Thanks for broadening our horizons. I think I have heard more opera singers and their work in the past 20/30(?) years through rockers than I ever did in the whole rest of my life. Now I'm impressed. Opera singers are amazing.
Uno de los análisis, comentarios, apreciaciones más geniales que he visto en relación al canto y al canto de ópera. Eres claro, preciso, didáctico, ameno y amable. Realmente admirable y fabuloso lo que has hecho aquí. Es la primera vez que te escucho y veo. Bravísimo. Y que hables de Deutekom, bueno, que decir, una maravilla. Sólo gracias por tu talento de hacer ver con tanta claridad el complejo arte del canto lírico.
Holy wah! This is a surprise! Love education 🎹 When I was young my Mom bought a stereo and I listened to some of her records. Liked Mario Lanza although my preferences drifted to Elvis, Roy, Del, Brenda, Jackie W and the Grand Ole Opry style. This video is amazing. ❣
You remember i told you about ny cousins mother doing opera and this is one she could not do and thats why she wasnt able to go pro. . This is phenomenal!
Beautiful analysis of her operatic singing technique. The one thing that's missing from this aria is piannissimo singing which is an equally impressive technical feat as these fortissimo fireworks. A little FFF goes a long way. The coloratura singing though is incredibly clean and impressive. She's captured the piccolo-sounding staccato whistle tone style perfectly as well as the legato runs.
Congrats for this extremely interesting video and your analysis on Cristina's performance! Very well done indeed! I'm a professional in her same field, and I can tell you that this is one of the best videos about operatic singing I've ever seen!! Thanks!!
Fil - As much as the reviews themselves, I'm enjoying your ability to appreciate musical excellence in other generes, including country and now opera. I'm equally enjoying the ability of a couple classically trained people to do reviews appreciating excellence in rock. I guess I'm in my cross-genere appreciation period. Thanks!
As ever amazing content Fil and an interesting departure. I would find opera easier to accept or deal with if it wasn't so stylised. Having said that I appreciate the control and resonance you highlight so perceptively and enthusiastically
I had classical lessons in high school. My vocal coach always said your mouth is your horn. Open your throat, keep it as relaxed as possible, and use your diaphragm. I made the all state chorus my senior year, but I never got to that standard. Love opera.
Fil. I cannot play a note or hold a tune but I’m addicted to your channel. Thank You so much. I love all flavours of music and you have opened up for me a whole new way to listen to and understand how songs/music is produced. 🙏
