From: Karen Mercedes
To: VOCALIST <vocalist>
Subject: Re: Arias Transposed?
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

On Fri, 4 Feb 2000 RALUCOB-at-aol.com wrote:

> i just want you all to know that, even though i am a bass-baritone, when i
> sing 'voi che sapete', i sing it in the original key and the original octave
> and i look more like a guy than any woman who has ever sung it.

Ah, but do you look 14 years old. The point of making Cherubino a
pants-role is that the character is a PRE-PUBESCENT boy (or a boy just
entering puberty), not a full grown man.

Karen Mercedes
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