I recently lost my voice (about 2 months ago) after starting work full-time as a music teacher. The voice was still useable as a school teacher, but as I am currently preparing as Tamino for a student production of the Magic flute, has been useless at an operatic level. It has been recovering very slowly, but teaching has made it impossible for me to have substantial time off from using my voice (I am using an amplified microphone head-set to teach). I am currently having two days of silence in the hope that this will help. The opera is only 1 month away, and I am getting increasingly anxious. I will have two weeks off soon before the opera performance. Does it seem logical that my voice should recover fully in that amount of time?
By the way, can anyone tell me what cortisone is? Richard Miller's 'Structure of Singing' mentions it a few times in relation to voice tiredness.
Mirko
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